West Baltimore community center offers free health services [Video]

BALTIMORE — Carlose Debose knows far too many people with diabetes and high blood pressure, including a brother who died from a stroke.

“I think we were ignorant to the fact that it could happen. We didn’t know about diabetes or a heart attack. We think we can just rip and run the streets and everything gone be alright,” said Debose.

Debose helps run the Ruth M. Kirk Recreation and Learning Center. He and a friend turned an old building into an after school program. Over the past decade, it has grown into a community hub for fresh food, school supplies and now a health clinic.

“Over the years you have people that feel like, I don’t know about those guys. But over time things change. They believe in us. They believe we’re going to make something happen for them,” said Debose.

Dr. Wayman Cheatham who helps teach at the …