"When the National Trust launched the campaign... I thought it just fitted very well with the Make It Stop campaign, which is about keeping hope strong in communities, caring, working together, building something from small beginnings,"
"I've been to university three times, got a first degree in biomedical science, master's in forensic science, got a PhD."
"Never been involved in criminality, but at the age of 15 I was the victim of a stabbing. At the age of 23 I was a victim of a shooting while breaking up a fight."
The sapling originated from the Northumberland Sycamore Gap tree that was illegally felled two years earlier and has been planted in Brockwell Park, Brixton. The tree is presented as a symbol of hope for young people affected by knife crime and as a remembrance of lives lost too early to violence. The sapling is one of 49 grown from the original tree and distributed by the National Trust to communities across the country. The planting was linked to the Make It Stop campaign’s focus on keeping hope, caring, working together and building from small beginnings. Dr Mahamed Hashi, a cabinet member for safer communities who survived a stabbing at 15 and a shooting at 23, took part in the planting. The new tree replaces a diseased ash and is intended as a lasting reminder and a sign of commitment to reducing youth violence.
Read at www.bbc.com
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