A few weeks ago, I posted a video on Women’s Bean Project , a non-profit that employs chronically unemployed and impoverished women to make packaged products, and putting them in a program so they learn life skills that will allow them to find permanent job and become self-sufficient.
Tonight I came across another empowerment project. Dorothy Stoneman, a Skoll Uncommon Heros, started YouthBuild to create a positive future for low-income young people. By re-enrolling them in alternative schools where they complete high school and build affordable homes for their neighbors, they’re given the opportunity to transform their own lives.
Stories like this keep me going. Being there to make things a little easier for each other, isn’t that what life is all about?
