Harlem Children's Zone Breaks Poverty Pattern
For many thousands of inner-city poor, many of them African-American, poverty is handed down from generation to generation. With parents unable to provide for them, children quickly fall behind their grade level, drop out of school, and end up in jail. As the president of a nonprofit for children in Harlem, Geoffrey Canada saw this pattern first hand. He transformed his organization into a project to attack the roots of poverty and change the lives of thousands of children. Today, the Harlem Children's Zone provides social and medical services, offers parenting workshops, and runs charter schools for the children of its community. National Public Radio, August 4, 2009
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