Life Lessons
Jun 11, 2019
3 minutes
By Pim Van Hemmen
In 1995, social worker JoAnn Tschaen visited seven kids in a sweltering tenement in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The former whaling town had already fallen on hard times. Manufacturing job losses had brought poverty and, in its wake, severe crime.
Seeing the kids’ plight in the tenement upset Tschaen, but as she crossed the bridge to her home in Fair Haven, Massachusetts, she spotted sailboats in the
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