TRUE-LIFE
When Will Holmes founded Starts Right Here, his nonprofit organisation, he had one goal.
Help at-risk young people in the city of Des Moines, Iowa.
Growing up in Chicago, he’d had a rough childhood.
Joined a gang aged 13, looking for the protection and love he didn’t get at home.
Yet gang life only led to him witnessing a friend’s murder at 15.
Then he was almost beaten to death himself.
After surviving, Will – also known by his hip-hop name Will Keeps – moved to Des Moines in his 20s to start a new life.
Sudden violence
He launched Starts Right Here, to
