https://vimeo.com/17933003]
Eric Pellini looks at Victory Outreach’s attempt to get drug users off the streets in Kensington.
Related Articles
Hunting Park: Abandoned Buildings Plague the Neighborhood While City Organizations Work Toward Improvement
https://vimeo.com/41317453] Residents of the 4000 block of North Darien Street are like a family. Whether it’s giving the kids a safe place to play after school or forcing thugs and drug dealers off the block, [continue reading…]
Rhawnhurst: Danger and Disease in Pennypack Creek
June 29, 2014
Bell's Corner, Bustleton, Environment, Featured Stories, Government, Health, Mayfair, Northeast Philadelphia
10
More than a dozen men, arms linked, spanned the Pennypack Creek. They trudged through the murky water looking for the body of a Father Judge High School student. The boy, Nicky Simonetti, 14, went missing [continue reading…]
North Philadelphia: Philadelphia Housing Authority Auction Upsets Residents
November 10, 2011
Economy, Featured Stories, Government, Housing, North Philadelphia, Social Issues
9
https://vimeo.com/31937924] Betsy Esteves was surprised to see the empty lot next to her home on North Third Street–a lot she fenced off, planted grass on, did some minor gardening in and has been struggling to [continue reading…]
I can tell you spent a lot of time on this story and it shows. The entire piece reminded me of something you would see on the New York Times website. This story makes me wish I wasn’t working with the Historical Society. Great job Eric.
I attend that church and that is so alsome and that topic you guys talking about its called the mens home that program is so good and many of our pastors in victory outreach was apart of that program and look at them now have their own businesses and have family’s their lifes has really changed from that program so be encourage to tell people that are homeless or drug addicts to be part of that program really life changing god bless
Victory Outreach North Philadelphia is an amazing church where lives are being transformed on a daily basis!