THE NEED FOR S.I.C. INC.
Programs
such as Saving Innocent Children are so important and fundamental to our
society. While we send our children to school, church, after school programs
and other miscellaneous activities, there is still so much that students are
missing out on. The role of a mentor in their lives is so important that, in
today’s society, the lack of one may be detrimental. Close your eyes and
imagine this scenario. You wake up in the morning to start your daily routine
with a shower, getting dressed, breakfast and brushing your teeth. Then, you
walk outside to go to your car and head out to work. As you walk outside, you realize
how beautiful the day is and you take a moment to take in some of the fresh air
that Southern California has to offer. Imagining how awesome your view is from
your work office, you begin to place your car key in the door and unlock it.
The moment the doors unlock, two young high school aged men, who appear to be
gang members, approach you. They have both you and your daughter, who has been
patiently waiting on the other side of the car, at gunpoint. Your worlds have
been turned upside down.
Now
imagine that same exact morning and you see those same two young men
approaching you. This time, they have mentors in their lives. How do those kids
look? How do you and your daughter interact with them? How do they interact
with you?
In
the first scenario, not only do we have two troubled youth, but we now also
have a shaken up adult. This adult may now have formed stereotypes and
prejudices in his mind about youth who identify within the same ethnic group.
We also have a young traumatized girl who’s life has forever been changed by
that experience. As the father who was incapable to do anything to protect his
daughter (at that specific moment) you are no longer the hero in your little
girls eyes and your relationship is now totally destroyed. But, the question that
S.I.C. would ask is what happened to the little girl? How can she be helped?
Saving
Innocent Children would then step in and take this little girl, who is now a
rebellious teenager, into our care and provide her with the experience of a
lifetime. She would be mentored and be able to work with trained staff members
and in some cases, trained professionals, about her problems. She would be able
to release that little girl in her whose development came to a temporary end.
She would be able to work with other girls who can relate to her situation and
discover things about herself that could brighten her future. She would learn
to become a dynamic leader and successful student, so that she can use her
voice to prevent the cycle from repeating. She could dream and follow her
dreams, which in turn would help others around her do the same. And who
knows...she may become the leader of her community, city, state or nation. But
more importantly, she learned to take a negative experience, an obstacle that
had been standing in her way for years, overcome it and still rise above and
beyond the occasion.
