Santa Fe Launches GoFundMe Project to Help Community Heal

SANTA FE, TX — The Santa Fe community has embarked on a crusade to transform park into a place of healing and recovery, but they are asking for help to make this project a reality.

An organization called Keep Santa Fe Beautiful is looking to raise $350,000 to create the Mae S. Bruce Therapeutic Garden.

The gulf coast community of Santa Fe has endured one hardship and tragedy after another over a period of just 18 months.

In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey uprooted lives with flooding from an unrelenting rain that pounded the Texas Gulf Coast for nearly two weeks.

The Santa Fe community was no where near recovered from the storm, when on May 18, 2018, the unthinkable happened.

A student walked on the campus and started shooting. When the smoke cleared, 10 people were dead, and 13 others were wounded.

The Santa Fe community mourned, and it still mourns.

Just a few weeks after the Santa Fe High School shooting, a Santa Fe mom of two teenagers went to the city about revitalizing the park into something special.

By the end of the summer, the city had a plan to restore the old park into the Mae S. Bruce Therapeutic Garden., which according to their GoFundMe page, will include a sensory garden, walking trail, meditative areas, a water feature, artful mosaics, community seating, an open lawn next to a gazebo, and enclosed on two sides with a 7-foot fence.

You can make a donation or learn about the project here.

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