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RAWtools Philly transforms guns into garden tools and art, helping communities channel trauma into healing, creativity, nonviolence, and positive neighborhood change.
RAWtools Philly was funded to incentivize the safe surrender and decommissioning of unwanted firearms, transform gun materials into garden tools, art, and jewelry, create income opportunities for individuals impacted by gun violence and at-risk youth, and engage the community through public events that center survivors, promote healing, and inspire positive change.
RAWtools Philly was funded to incentivize gun surrenders, transform firearms into tools and public art, center survivor stories, offer youth art activities, teach welding and fabrication skills, provide income opportunities, and promote suicide prevention and lifesaving gun policies.
RAWtools Philly was funded to advance community healing in Kensington by transforming trauma through neighborhood-based activities that address violence, substance use, disinvestment, and inequitable access to housing, health care, education, and economic opportunity.
RAWtools Philly was funded to expand its gun-transformation programs and cover operating materials, including forge fuel, tools, equipment, canvases, and wood backdrops used to turn donated firearms into garden tools and art.
