Zenobia Washington and the Georgetown Outreach Ministries, Inc. (GOMINC) believe that they are their brother’s keeper, especially their younger brothers who have had run-ins with the law. Washington is the director of GOMINC’s My Brother’s Keeper program. Currently, the major focus of the program is to help mostly young men, but some young women, remove financial impediments to moving forward positively with their lives. Persons the program serves are those that owe money – restitution, court fees, and fines for driving violations – that they don’t have or can’t get to the criminal justice system. Washington and My Brother’s Keeper help them come up creative ways to raise the money so that they can clear their names, or in some cases, get their driver’s licenses back, so that they can move forward with their lives. Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Washington about the My Brother’s Keeper program on the current edition of Insight (#45).
