| Sumario: | A project begun in Milwaukee's South Side aims to turn thugs into computer programmers. In 1996, Jesuit Brother James Holub, in an effort to stop the city's gangland murders, created Homeboyz Interactive, a non-profit outfit involved in recruiting, training, and job placement. The organization is subsidized in its operations by HBI Consulting, a for-profit web-design company. Youths from Milwaukee's roughest areas receive drug addiction therapy, spend six months studying for their high-school graduation exam, and must get a full-time job on their own. They then have the option of training to be programmers. About a quarter of the youths who join the project decide to go into programming, and the rest are helped into community colleges and job placement schemes. The Homeboyz Interactive project has a high success rate, and Brother Holub is expanding it to other U.S. cities.
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