Homeboy Wins $2.5 Million Dollar Hilton Humanitarian Prize on the 25th Anniversary of Annual Award

[Michie]

The gang-intervention heroes at Homeboy Industries have just been chosen as winners of the 2020 Humanitarian Prize from the Hilton Foundation, and will receive $2.5 million in unrestricted funding.

As the world’s largest annual humanitarian award, the Prize is presented to a nonprofit organization judged to have made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering.

Homeboy Industries is a unique place where former gang members are able to experience healing from their violent pasts within the context of kinship. It is a place of hope where work therapy, mentorship, education, tattoo removal and many other vital re-entry services are offered so people can have a second chance at life.

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Homeboy Wins $2.5 Million Dollar Hilton Humanitarian Prize on the 25th Anniversary of Annual Award

 

[tulc]

NICE!
tulc(trusts it will be used to do a lot of good!)

 

[Tigger45]

That’s awesome!

Gang intervention and rehabilitation once initiated has a multiplying effect that their own kids will be much less likely to become gang members. And so on, and so on,...