(voanews.com) There is an old saying that “it takes a village to raise a child.” In the midwestern American state of Illinois there is a special place that takes that message to heart. Hope Meadows is a community built around the special needs of children who, until they moved there, had no families of their own. Now they have much more.
The winding street lined with mailboxes and houses with manicured lawns looks like many residential neighborhoods in the United States.
“When you drive through it just looks like a wonderful neighborhood to live in. You can’t tell where Hope starts and the rest of the community begins,” says Michael Marks. (more…)
Man, this is a great idea! The only problem that I would see with this is with local schools (unless they are being homeschooled in this program) having a concentration of “troubled” kids. But I guess that is what the foster family is for.
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