
Hope Empowerment Project hosted a community meeting on Jan. 31 at Macedonia Baptist Church, located at 17 Cochran St., in Duquesne.
The focus of this community meeting was to educate the community about who H.E.P. is and its agenda in the Duquesne community.

“It is important for our community to accept that ‘WE,’ the residence of Duquesne, hold a degree of accountability for our community substandard conditions. Therefore, it is ‘US’ who share the responsibility in recreating it! With the help and support of the residence and community organizations we will effectively reclaim our community. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:58),” the group said in a press release.