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Jack Kingston: The gentleman in your newsletter, and I am attributing everything to you that I am plagiarizing here, but you pointed…

On the recordMarch 18, 1997
The gentleman in your newsletter, and I am attributing everything to you that I am plagiarizing here, but you pointed out in Washington, DC, a 57-year-old grandmother who started a program called Children of Mine, and the program in Washington, DC, provides hot meals, homework help, tutoring, computer instruction, Bible study, and a safe place for at-risk children to play, go to after school, to know that they are safe and have security and so forth. And the interesting thing is as this woman, Miss Hannah Hawkins, has turned around the lives of so many children since--well, I am not sure she started it in 1970 or how long she has been doing it, but not one dime comes from the Federal Government. And you are finding all kinds of programs similar to this Children of Mine.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Highlighting a successful community program for at-risk children in Washington, DC.

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