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PROJECTS 1. VOLUNTEER SERVICE Service to our communities is a valuable way of sharing love and caring for our neighbors. Many of the projects we focus on, occur in the inner city, where there is a great need for UNITY. There is no limit to the connections that can evolve for helping where help is needed. The joy of service opens doors of compassion for everyone who participates. This allows for people to meet, share phone numbers, and identify who actually lives in the area. In cooperation with the police, it creates trust and belief in the "golden rule." We do watch out for each other and we have avoided many acts of violence and crimes by drug dealers who previously occupied the neighborhood which was called "Little Vietnam." When we moved into this neighborhood, many of the street lights had been shot out. We knew that good light was important, so our Swazey/Summit (S/S) Neighborhood Association collected $10 from families who could afford it and matched with a donation from FCS Urban Ministries to pay our part of the cost to Georgia Power to get the lights repaired. It was quite an amazing moment when we had street lights and all the homes had their porch lights on at night. It deterred future activity. We have a Community Room in our Peace Center for S/S to hold their meetings. When the turnout becomes too large, we expand into neighborhood churchs which is a wonderful outreach to a larger community. Through Neighborhood Watch we did "National Night Out - Crime Awareness",(see Photos) a vigil in front of the last remaining crack house (we orginally had 4), but have been unsuccessful in getting it shutdown. We've used zoning ordinances, tried to buy out the house, used evangalism, attempted to educate the long-distance disinterested owner, cooperated with the police by calling 911, sent in groups of volunteers to clean up the trash the drug dealers create and pray everytime we pass the house. There have been slow changes and we have not given up hope that the S/S will transition out of this previous history. Because of the cooperation of the neighbors, we have official signs posted by the county that say we are a "neighborhood watch" community which sends the message to anyone who can read that we care and are united which is a deterrent. Another neighborhood activity has been our "Neighborhood Country Fair" activities which occur on the streets which we barricade off. With the help of ELC community we have had two successful events to bring the neighbors together. We plan to have more block parties during the summer. (See Photos) -EAST END NEIGHBORS (EEN) Once Swazey/Summit (S/S) was organized we realized because of fear and disempowerment, people were locked behind closed doors and security bars. We gradually connected with East Lake Commons (ELC) an intentional co-housing community next to S/S. They had a committee called "Neighborhood Connections" that gave us the model to expand into other neighborhoods and eventually EEN offered quarterly meetings for eight adjoining neighborhoods.

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