My heart aches reading this, Imad. In LA, there is a nonprofit called Homeboy Industries that works with the "forgotten children of history" and teaches them skills AND hope. I donate whenever I can and keep thinking of offering to teach a poetry class - wondering if the 'children' would go for it.

Look up a book online called Tattoos on the Heart. Worth a read.

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