The prince will open a Youth Zone in east London on Thursday as the capital struggles with a growing knife crime problem.
Paula Rodriguez, 16, lives near the new Barnet Youth Zone and told Sky News:"It's got to a point where every second that a young person spends on the streets is that one second that somebody could just come and take their life or put them in hospital."There isn't a definite reason as to why [gang violence and knife crime] is happening...
She said the Youth Zones make a difference because"for some people it's like a second home because not a lot of kids have that sort of environment at home, where you know they have people looking out for them". The centres are not cheap to run - around £6m each at a time when local authorities have dramatically cut youth spending - but local businesses, philanthropists, the community and local authorities all chip in.Young people have access to the best computers or gym equipment based on the belief that if young people are trusted and invested in, their confidence is boosted and their behaviour improved.and how important it is for young people to have places to go.
YMCA chief executive Denise Hatton said:"He is somebody that can raise the profile of the issues and hopefully, as he talked about today, what we need to do is work together to just open up purse strings wherever we can.When the prince visits the Youth Zone on Thursday he will also meet members of Barking and Dagenham Youth Forum and Youth Zone members who will talk about their experiences of knife crime.
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