With a vest and a voice, helpers escort kids through San Francisco’s broken Tenderloin streets
Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO — Wearing a bright safety vest with the words “Safe Passage” on the back, Tatiana Alabsi strides through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to its only public elementary school, navigating broken bottles and stained sleeping bags along tired streets that occasionally reek of urine. Tatiana Alabsi, left, hugs her nephew Adam Khalid as she roams the Tenderloin neighborhood Wednesday, March 20, 2024, in San Francisco. “I am not monster.” Tatiana Alabsi, left, is hugged by her sister-in-law Bushra Tanaka Alabsi while working in the Tenderloin neighborhood Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in San Francisco. Tatiana Alabsi, right, checks on a man laying on a sidewalk and asks him to please move before children start walking to school in the Tenderloin neighborhood Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in San Francisco.
