An inspirational mum is setting up a charity to help provide for the children who have been left fatherless in Bermuda’s spate of shootings.Grejai Smith is to restructure her No Child Goes Without (NCGW) charity to focus on the “real victims” of Bermuda’s spiralling gun crime.The charity will raise funds to pay for the college education of the youngsters who have been left behind. She hopes the promise of education will “give them a ray of hope, when things may look grim”.Mum-of-one Ms Smith was spurred into action after the murder of her good friend Jahmiko LeShore “truly broke her heart”. He was murdered on Boundary Crescent, Devonshire, on March 1 and his girlfriend gave birth to their son Kar’da Jahmiko LeShore-Brown just a week later.Ms Smith said the birth of Kar’da inspired her to act as “his father never even had the chance to see his face”.Five men have so far been killed on our streets in shootings this year and a total of 16 men since May 2009.Ms Smith, of Devonshire, said she will work alongside her friends to “make a difference and be part of the solution”.She said: “We are all very well aware of the gun violence that has swept over the Island over the last few years and it’s no secret that it’s tearing families apart.“There are too many children left fatherless because of these senseless shootings.“We want to try to do something to help those children left behind … the main focus will be to ensure that every child that has become fatherless due to the gun violence be afforded the opportunity to receive a college education.”NCGW was officially launched in April 2008 to feed children who were left to go hungry. The charity handed over lunches to schoolchildren and also helped to pay for school uniforms.But Ms Smith is changing the focus of the charity as she believes “that’s where the real need is”. Ms Smith plans to re-register the charity at the start of next month.She then plans to “jump in head first” by organising fundraising events and collecting charitable donations from businesses and churches.Ms Smith hopes the community will rally together to help pay for the first year of these children’s college education, whether in Bermuda or overseas.She urged the community to “show compassion” to ensure children can receive the education they deserve.Ms Smith, president of NCGW, aims to set up bank accounts for each child left fatherless through gun violence “starting from the death of Shaki Crockwell onwards”.She said: “It doesn’t matter whether the children are from town, country, 42, Parkside, MOB and all the other affiliated crews.“These children all deserve an education. All funds will be evenly distributed to the accounts as time goes on but for the children that may be close to college already we will boost their accounts first because, of course, time is not on their side.”Ms Smith said she had been personal friends with many of the shooting victims and always prayed that no more parents would have to go through the same heartache.She said: “It’s easy to say that Government should make sure these children are taken care of but the reality of it is that our Island is suffering all over and sometimes you have to take things into your own hands if you want results.“As a community I know we can help. I figure this Island has enough churches that if a special collection was taken every once in awhile there will be substantial cash to donate. If businesses have denim days for the cause, substantial cash would be available and I am going to have tag days every so often to pump money into this cause.”Ms Smith added that the money raised would only be used for a child’s further education. If a child does not want to go to college, the money will be put back into the charity’s pot to be used by other children.For further information about the new charity e-mail nochildgoeswithout[AT]gmail.com.