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Children with a Mentor
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Victor Rios was one of those kids who grew up in poverty-stricken. He struggled early in life from poverty, gangs, and a Ph.D.[/FONT]
I have encountered him via Ted Talks on the internet and then I got to so excited to read his book to know him better.
Victor seemed to be failing in life in the beginning of the childhood.
His mom was pregnant with him and she did not want him and wanted to have an abortion.
When Victor attended school for the elementary school, he had bullied others and others bullied him.
And, the school would inform his mom and she would response to Victor mentioning that she did not want him before he was born nor after.
At age of fifteen, he worked with his uncle to collect glass bottles, because he was broke and needed to earn some money.
Every day at the dawn, he ran around homes and shops to find any glasses to throw them at his uncle’s van. Blood would get all over his hands and pants, and he would suffer from that till he wanted to quit. His uncle will response in Spanish "Mijo, estamos buscando vida."
"We're searching for a better life, we're trying to make something out of nothing." .
He had been involved in gangs and detained in juvenile a few times. He thought about dropping out and about ending his life by anyhow he could. He was fatalistic and did not believe in himself. He thought about his lifetime in earth would be over before eighteenth birthday.
But, there was a teacher who often invited him and would love to listen to his stories from her heart.
Additionally, she told him whenever he would feel to change just come to visit her.
She stood with him to finish his high school, and enrolling into a college.
Surprisingly, he continued in academic life till earning a Ph.D.
Currently, he is very passionate on working to change the situation from labeling young people who seem terrible in school and such losers in life to be worthy and valued people .
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i love this story and i would love to share it with you guys
if someone would like to watch the whole clip,
see this link: https://www.ted.com/talks/victor_rio...system_ignores
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