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Unsuccessful NPO: The Garden Of Forgiveness

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Case Study of an Unsuccessful NPO:
The Garden of Forgiveness

There stood silence, shadows and dust left from the twin towers that once stood tall, world’s largest skyscrapers. From light of days to the darkest of days it was foreseen the unfortunate events of 9/11 that took away so much of the freedom land we call America. On September 11th, 2001 a tragic, horrific, terrifying acts of hatred and violence occurred on the streets of Manhattan, NY. Where planes targeted and struck the once renowned and highly known World Trade Center. It was an overwhelming, shocking, horrendous, scary time where this all took place at the time. The United States was filled with sadness, sorrow, fear and anger. There were many who were affected by this tragic …show more content…

Coming from New York City a place where tragedy took complete effect on the lives of Americans and shattered their views of a safe world. Lyndon Harris was completely inspired by her ideas so he decided to start his own “Gardens of Forgiveness,” movement at Ground Zero in New York City. Harris had a different purpose though then Asseily when he made the decision to develop his own movement. The First Garden of Forgiveness in New York City was established in the year 2008 near Ground Zero, by the support and partnership of the Quaker School Friends of Peace Club in Manhattan, …show more content…

But, his intention was to collect all these ideas of planting gardens for peace in order to honor families and victims of the world trade center, but with a motive. His motive is to scam others who reach out to the organization and support his cause, by collecting money through fundraising and donations and using them to benefit him. His idea was a complete scam. He was very dishonest of his mission to support relief efforts of the tragic events that happened at the world trade center. He promised hundreds and thousands of a garden of forgiveness, but there were no gardens to be found. It was complete betrayal to the kindness of his supporters and the hardships and loss of the families of 9/11 victims who died, were injured, or knew someone who had been affected by the events that took place on 9/11. The idea of a Garden of forgiveness failed miserably. It was never built or developed. It was an idea that was difficult to fulfill as promised. As of today their stands a memorial where the world trade center once stood that is dedicated for those victims who were killed in the year of 2001 and 1993 terror attacks on the world trade

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