Building peace through intimate and personal connections. A Hartford nonprofit is helping teens and young people affected by violence with all around support through mentors.

“I am going to be successful. I am going to be wealthy,” 19-year-old Raiden McDade said.

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He’s brimming with confidence wanting to be a future entrepreneur.

“I want to have generational wealth, and I want to be able to have money working for myself,” McDade said.

But a few years earlier that thought didn’t cross his mind. He struggled with school and had a complicated relationship with his family, but he got guidance from a peacebuilder, Amir “Primo” Spears.

“Anytime I need to get somewhere, he makes sure I get there. I can rely on him,” McDa

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