has been providing social programming for inner-city youth, helping them to empower themselves for a greater tomorrow.
CEO and founder Edna Jackson discusses why empowering the youth is so important.
"They are the future; they will be over us, they'll be the ones that will watch over us when we become even more seasoned with grace and mentoring are very important," she says.
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Teach for America is a social venture that hires graduating seniors from some of the most selective colleges and offers them with five-week training courses before unleashing them for a minimum of two years in some of the country’s worst classrooms.