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✨ Meet our 2023 OC Fellow working with youth! 👦🏾👦🏽👧🏾👦🏿👧🏽👧🏿 🇺🇸 A dream desert is a system young people of color fall into when they’re unable to follow their passion due to a lack of resources, knowledge, support and life circumstances. Devonta Boston is changing that by creating an “Oasis”, a space where young people cross neighborhood boundaries to cultivate their leadership, talent, passions and bonds with one another. This oasis is known as TGiMovement. Devonta has opened the only youth center in the community he lives in—the south side of Chicago. He engages cohorts of 15 youths in a program called Omega Chi Omega to focus on topics such as mental health, self care, civic engagement, community events, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, workforce development and much more. An initiative called VISUAL, revitalized the community through murals, sculptures and opportunities for young artists to practice and showcase their work. He is in the process of raising funds to buy abandoned properties in the community to rehab and give them to the entrepreneurs who successfully complete their fellowship programs. He started his community organizing journey when he was 14 years old. #globalcommunity #instagood #community #leadership #fellowships #people #socialimpact #socialentrepreneurs #postthepeople #storyportrait #changetheworld #inspire #youth #civicengagement #activecitizenship #communitydevelopment