Ean Garrett, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partner

Our America - April 1, 2008 - video from Lincoln Theater - Washington, DC

From the start I was expected to lose. Everything I have right now is mostly because I defied what the world concluded about me before I could even speak a word in my defense. And my defense is that I am just as capable as any person to do great things. Like you, I think about all the things this world could achieve if only every child was given the right tools. Mentoring is the right tool and it is the way to the American Dream. To everyone here tonight, I hope you will promise to do everything you can to help make mentoring and the American Dream a reality for every child in this city and every other city in the country. It's their best defense, too. -- Ean Garrett, Mentee at the MENTOR National Recognition Event

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Education

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• Mentor
• childrend
• poverty

[DBrownH4BT]

Very well said.