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Oct 10, 2005

"Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower." --Shigenori Kameoka

Desert Rose

San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point is a tough neighborhood; besides its notorious gang violence, the pollution that is spewed by the surrounded freeways, power plant, and Naval shipyard, have resulted in high levels of asthma, cancer, and birth-defects among its residents. 19-year-old La Constance Shahid is working to heal the land by inspiring young residents to raise the native plants that will installed in the neighborhood's 34-acre wetland restoration. The project has raised thousands of native plants from seed, and fostered hopes of health and prosperity to bloom.