Chris Hedges
Children in distressed neighborhoods will be saved or damned according to the nurturing and support they receive. In most poor neighborhoods, where homes are broken, mass incarceration is endemic, violence is ever present and drugs poison the lives of the destitute, children often cannot find a safe space — even in their homes — in which they can grow and learn. Still Waters provides this space. It is a womb-like environment where young minds and souls expand and express themselves in astonishing creativity and originality. In a civilized society such a space would exist on every block of every poor neighborhood in the United States. But we do not live in civilized times. This makes the work of Still Waters not only rare, but precious. In these walls there lies a hope we must not permit to be extinguished.