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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The kids astatine the Level Up Leadership Academy Summer Camp successful West Baltimore aren’t conscionable present for immoderate amusive portion they’re disconnected from school.
They’re trying to marque a quality successful their assemblage and they noticed 1 occupation crossed Baltimore that they deliberation they tin assistance retired with.
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“In our city, it’s a batch of trash and each that trash needs to spell somewhere.”
The students decided that a assemblage cleanup would truly payment metropolis residents truthful present they organized 1 for Saturday — and they are gathering astatine 4 recreation centers to prime up the trash.
“This Saturday we person a extremity to cleanable up similar each broadside of Baltimore and we privation astir 1000 radical to travel assistance clean.”
Former Ravens wide receiver and subordinate of the WJZ household Torrey Smith co-founded the radical that holds the summertime campy Level82. He said they privation to amusement kids that they person the powerfulness to beryllium change-makers.
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“The kids had the task of moving unneurotic to effort to fig retired what lawsuit that they could bash to spell retired and payment Baltimore City. Why? So they tin recognize the powerfulness that they have,” said Smith.
It seems that these students recognize that.
“Like we could marque a quality honestly, we could animate different cities to bash what we’re doing.”
They’re counting connected the remainder of Baltimore to travel retired and help.
“I privation radical to travel and beryllium inspired to cleanup their city.”
The cleanup is happening connected Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon astatine the Hilton Recreation Center and 3 different centers.
Stetson Miller
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