BUFFALO, N.Y. — Paying for your kids to play sports can get pricey, from registration fees to uniforms and more. That’s why one group worked hard to get money for some Buffalo students to not worry about that.

Just like many kids, Noelle Wroblewski loves to play sports.

“The sports I want to play, it makes me feel good,” she said.

She understands the fun, but also the team-building skills you can get from them.

“Once they get to know more people, they may get to know the love from more people,” Wroblewski explained.

While her family doesn’t have issues paying for her to be involved, other families at P.S. 43 Lovejoy Discovery School in Buffalo might.

“Lovejoy is a blue-collar area where people go out there and they work hard and they pay their bills, and they're not really left with much left,” said Al Robinson, the senior pastor at Spirit of Truth Urban Ministry.

Robinson, School 42 and the Buffalo Police Athletic League teamed up with Tonya Love and former Atlanta Falcons player LaTarence Dunbar to get $50,000 in grants to these students. That money would help fund more than 60 sports, plus cheer, dance and band.

“When you have a child that doesn't have, watching other children that do have, that causes like distress in the child," said Robinson. "We don't want that. We want these children to grow up in a competitive, natural, healthy way so they can aspire to create things in life.”

Tonya Love’s son Prosper was killed at 17 after being caught in crossfire. She now runs a nonprofit called No Weapon Shall Prosper and wants to more kids to find support in sports, not the streets.

“It's just a such a universal opportunity for kids is to tap into their gifts, to learn teamwork and to learn to be a gang of football players or gang of basketball players, as opposed to a gang of street members,” Love explained.

Dunbar comes from the athlete side of things. He understands how you can take those lessons and become a =member of society.

“You have your offense, defense, special teams. That's tied to situations in your life as well as sports, he said. "Once you master sports, you can transition this to business. This is what I'm actually doing.”

That would be a better path than what Pastor Robinson’s seen others go down.

“I do the burials of the children that get shot, of the children that overdose," he said. "When you could lift the veil of despair of just two inches, they can peek and see the beautiful world that's out there.”

With murder being a major concern in the city, especially for young people of color, Robinson is ready to turn the tides and says getting more kids in sports is the perfect way to do just that.

“I think that this money is going to go a long way, and it's going to change lives,” Robinson proclaimed.

Applications are being accepted now for students at School 43. Depending on how that goes, they could expand access to more kids in the city.

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