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Their dark horse stories of pulling impossible into reach
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Ari, homeless as a kid for seven years moving every two weeks from shelter-to-shelter in NYC with her mom. When we signed her she was flunking 8th grade. As a senior, she ranked 2nd in her class and now attends college in NYC.
đź’• Ariel was raised by her grandparents a street over from the drug dealers. In the dead of winter with utilities cut-off, cold and damp inside, Ariel's outside cooking hotdogs over a fire in the dark from sticks fallen from the trees above. She and her brother delivered phone books on-foot getting the power turned on. She's attending college in Tampa now.Â
đź’•  Shayla, always our special challenge dropping out of school in 11th grade. She was signed while in group home foster care for troubled teens. Shayla now works a fast-food drive-through window. She and the CEO still chase the fairy tale; that dream they dare but whisper. Neither thought it to be so hard! Maybe we did, just didn't want to really believe it.Â
