![Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub youth, including those in the juvenile justice system, boxed up food donations to distribute in in their Harlem neighborhood.](https://jjie.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/bc586402-4960-4137-b568-e53e3941ac04-140x140.jpeg)
Millions in seized money expanded Harlem youth hub’s “credible messenger” anti-violence project
|
Headquartered in the upper rooms of a church on 124th Street, Living Redemption is one five such hubs that, in 2017, received $45.9 million of $250 million that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office seized from a drug-money laundering European bank. Decade-old Living Redemption got $10.3 million. The windfall expanded the program — even providing providing a paycheck for those mentoring messengers.