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Our Tool Belt

Let us use our diverse tools to build hope in their hearts. Like opulent homes developed with care, We must take the time to create a strong foundation in young lives bursting with potential. For even though their bellies may groan from hunger or their eyes may be tired of seeing a mother’s addiction taking its terrible toll, we’ll never know how much a mentor’s friendly hand will give strength to a young person to proudly stand and push through time and circumstances that could have defeated them. Let us use our tools to deconstruct walls that divide them from us; Walls that prevent persons On either side of these divisions from earnest self-actualization. Though tenable by all five senses these barriers inevitably pose a moral threat to common possibility wherein a neighbor’s outcome is the ultimate reward of what we are all striving for. And whether this is simply an ideal on earth or not, let us nevertheless see this vision where each of our tools are used for creating and building in unison a house of brotherhood.

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