Saving the children, the pieces of gold: Nov 10th Press Conference

Nov 12, 2010

Saving the children, the pieces of gold: Nov 10th Press Conference

We must protect the children, says Maria Padilla, because each is a piece of gold.

Behind her stand the mothers in the bright yellow vests they wear to walk their children safely home.

Police officer Rafel Yanez recalls the death that led him to form the youth center – all volunteer, all self-supported, all out in its dream to be a place for a kid to go to escape trouble and to see a good day in Chicago.

Alden Loury, publisher of the Chicago Reporter, explains why he lives in the Chicago neighborhood where he grew up, the neighborhood with problems but the neighborhood where others do their best to make it a place where he wants to live.

And each came back to the theme that We Are Not Alone – No Estamos Solos.

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