our children and youth HOPE sees the invisible Feels the intangible and Achieves the impossible My favorite place is a house out of bricks just like the 3 little pigs but bigger My bricks are real real strong ID: 815007
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Slide1
While you wait:
Enjoy the words of
our children and youth
Slide2HOPE
sees the invisible
Feels the intangible
and
Achieves
the impossible
Slide3My favorite place is a house out of bricks just like the 3 little pigs but bigger. My bricks are real, real strong.
5 year old boy
Slide4My hopes are to finish school and get good grades.
My dream is to play in the NBA and be shown on TV.
My fear is to lose my family and my friends.
11 year old boy
Slide5“Thanks to McKinney-Vento, I didn’t have to move.”
LeTendre Scholar,
2013 Congressional Briefing
Slide6My dream is to make something out of myself.
My hope is to be a good person and get good A’s.
12 year old girl
Slide7My hope is to have a car so I can travel around to see different things.
My dream is of having a pet. I would like a frog.
6 year old boy
Slide8I was on my own and the teacher gave 10 bonus points for a parent’s signature on the test….
LeTendre Scholar,
2013 Congressional Briefing
Slide9My hope is for my dad’s credit to go up and for us to move out of this shelter. My hope is for my dad and mom to stop smoking. My hope is for my mom to have a really good life.
10 year old girl
Slide10We have a saying ‘in the system,’ [foster care ]
“The good ones never stay.”
LeTendre Scholar,
2013 Congressional Briefing
Slide11My hope is to be a successful person in life.
My dream is that there would be no such things as diseases or weapons of destruction, or killing.
My fear is of dying.
12 year old boy
Slide12My professor was so inspiring…I had the opportunity to do stem cell research. I had to choose between an opportunity to further my career and a job that would pay for school.
LeTendre Scholar,
2013 Congressional Briefing
Slide13My hopes are to have a car, to have money, and to have a house.
My dream is to be a teacher and to study cooking.
7 year old girl
Slide14My hopes are to be a basketball player, get along with other people, and go to college.
My fear is not succeeding.
12 year old boy
Slide15“There’s no one to tell.”
LeTendre Scholar,
2013 Congressional Briefing
Slide16My hopes are to go to college and make it on the
drumline
and also to be able to afford anything I need or want.
My favorite place is the mall. I could go there every day because I love to shop.
11 year old girl
Slide17My hopes are to serve my country and to be president.
My dream is to get a college degree.
My favorite place is outside.
My fear is to die in the war.
9 year old boy
Slide18“Homelessness doesn’t define us.”
LeTendre Scholar,
2013 Congressional Briefing
Slide19“We’re really good at hiding it.”
LeTendre Scholar,
2013 Congressional Briefing
Slide20“School was my escape.”
LeTendre Scholar,
2013 Congressional Briefing
Slide21My dream is of having a three story home, nice car and job working with animals as a zoologist. I would like to own a computer and go on a book shopping spree at a local bookstore.
14 year old boy
Slide22“When you see the quiet kid, keep trying to get in. Always just be there.”
LeTendre Scholar,
2013 Congressional Briefing
Slide23My dream is for the poor to get a better home, the kids who are sick get better treatment and for the people who have AIDS to get help. Please grant this wish.
10 year old girl
Slide24Swami’s challenge
How do I continue to dream big?