•   10 children and teens die each day from gunfire in America, approximately one every 2 1/2 hours.
•   In a single year, more children and teens die from gunfire than from cancer, pneumonia, influenza, asthma, and HIV/AIDS combined.
  
  -Children's Defense Fund

The Taking Back our Streets to SAVE our Children Citywide Billboard Campaign (215) 235-SAVE kicked off Thursday, March 11, 2004 at 12:00 noon at 27th and Diamond Streets with the unveiling of one of the first billboards. 

Each billboard features the picture of a victim of an unsolved murder. Billboards are strategically placed throughout the city and in close proximity to where the crime took place. A reward is offered for anonymous information related to the crime. Tips and information related to the crime can be received through an anonymous tip line and through this website. This section will feature pictures of the victims of the unsolved murders along with a brief description of the crime. This website allows individuals to provide anonymous information, and also provides information about resources for victims and their families as well as information on the programs and services offered by Mothers in Charge along with hyperlinks to partnership organizations. 

This Billboard Campaign is a collaboration of the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, Sylvester Johnson, Clear Channel Outdoor, Randy Brownley and Barbara Bridge, the Philadelphia Daily News, Citizens Crime Commission, Imagegraphics Design, Gointernet.net, private funder Kal Rudman and Divine Intervention Ministries of Pittsburgh.

Mothers in Charge is a community-based organization founded by Dorothy Johnson-Speight, a mother whose son was murdered. Members of Mothers in Charge include concerned, compassionate, impassioned mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and sisters who are committed to working toward the goal of saving lives. Most of the members have experienced the horror and pain of having a son, daughter or loved one murdered. Mothers in Charge realizes that positive change cannot happen within our community without first addressing the issue of the senseless and random violence that exist in our neighborhoods and we know in the names of our lost sons and daughters, and loved one that we must serve as the catalyst for change "we can't bring our children and loved ones back, but we can work to save the lives of others."

Please click here for victim information