This ballerina, Aesha Ash, took a day to go around the very poor (and quite likely dangerous) areas of a city, in her full ballet outfit, so that poor girls could see the possibility of a better future.

Poor kids very easily see no future for themselves save blight and difficulty. To see someone who looks like them, doing something successfully and very well, opens a world of possibilities to them. This is a very potent form of helping the young.

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Now, before you go back to the mundane, please consider what you (and/or your friends) might do to help children see something better for themselves. Where and how don’t fundamentally matter; what matters is creating possibilities and hope in some child’s mind… giving them the sight of someone who actually did something and telling them that they can do the same.