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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe folks at ABC News<\/a> send us their interview with Kelly Carlisle, the Navy veteran who founded the Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project<\/a>, a farm experience for kids in Oakland;<\/p>\n Growing up in East Oakland, Carlisle said she remembers feeling hopeless at a young age.<\/p>\n \u201cAt 9 years old there\u2019s nothing to do, there\u2019s nowhere to go, no program that my family can afford, or for me to engage in,\u201d Carlisle said. \u201cIt was hard, you couldn\u2019t go outside, we had a one-block radius that we can play in and I remember feeling and asking, what I am going to be and where I\u2019m going to go?\u201d<\/p>\n The former Navy Operation Specialist said she wants to be able to give \u201cher kids\u201d a chance at working towards a better future. Back in early 2010, Carlisle remembers hearing news reports about Oakland\u2019s high crime rate, childhood obesity, school dropout rates and teen prostitution.<\/p>\n \u201cMy initial reaction was, thank God I don\u2019t live there. Then the more I thought about it and the fact that I have a young child, it occurred to me that there\u2019s one population that has no choice to decide where they live or what their community looks and feels like and that\u2019s young people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n As a result, Carlisle founded Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project, a nonprofit urban farm that focuses on serving at-risk youth from kindergarten to 8th grade, and their families. She launched Acta Non Verba to teach children how to invest in themselves and ultimately invest in their communities.<\/p>\n Children plant, harvest and sell produce and 100 percent of those proceeds go to savings accounts to pay for their education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n