She was right. We are building it just for her. And for the
19-month-old who has been going on job search with his
mom, Sarah, for the last two weeks because we don’t have
room for him in our toddler room. And for Gracie, who
moved out of The Shelter last week and can’t keep coming to
child care because we don’t have any more community spots
open and she’s a community kid now. And for the dozens of
kids who we had to turn away at the end of the summer
because we didn’t have space for them to keep coming. We
are building that building just for them.
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people will disappear, & that the discrimination they face will disappear
along with it. Right: While our community builds its paper wall of
wishes, the construction crew finishes a cinderblock-&-glass wall of the
multipurpose room of our Children’s Center.