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children, class warfare, community service, education, New York Times, nonfiction, poverty, public housing, shelters
If you read anything today, make it this:
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child/#/?chapt=2
This is just the second chapter of “Invisible Children,” but it will definitely make you reevaluate your life and what you have going for you.
And maybe, if you’re like me, it will change how you see your responsibility to the future. Maybe it will leave you asking, “What can I do to make this girl’s life better?”
We like to think of bad things happening in “other places in the world.” But as this insightful article reminds us, sometimes those individuals suffering from abject poverty are only as far as the next block.
Certainly we can make some small changes in our lives to help them, our literal neighbors.