Hopefully, with your help, I will become such a person. It gives them hope that I was exactly in their shoes once, and in a few years, they could fill mine. We live in a world of hunger, poverty, violence, and other misfortunate conditions. There exist many individuals and groups who choose to help our communities by providing food and shelter. You choose to help by giving individuals access to an education.
Education can do more for a man than a hot meal and a place to stay for one night.
An education gives one the power to find one's own food and build one's own shelter, the power to fight for one's rights and the rights of one's people. Not for one night, but for a whole lifetime. I see the potential for greatness in many of these kids. All they need is someone to reveal to them the possibilities outside of East LA, someone to open their eyes to the greatness of an education. They do not realize that there are organizations who can help them pay for college.