PHILADELPHIA - A North Philly man is cleaning up city parks and playgrounds of drug needles to help keep kids in the neighborhood safe."You see these caps and we have syringes," said Raphael Feliciano about drug paraphernalia hiding in plain sight. "Syringes with needle points and residual blood.
This would change a child's life," he said. It’s a danger not just in back alleys but at parks and playgrounds around our city where children play. "You can imagine you want to go play handball, a handball bounces over here in this section, you run fast not thinking about it and get stabbed," he said.
Feliciano is trying to change that. He’s known to the community and on Instagram as “Mr. Clean and Safe Parks” because of the work he does nearly.