For Mabium Sirleaf, a Project SHINE intern, education is the key to unlocking a successful and self-sufficient future, a lesson she learned through strife and triumph.
Every Tuesday morning I travel to Nationalities Senior Center in North Philadelphia hoping that I won’t be found out. While I walk the six blocks from the subway I compulsively feel inside my bag to ensure I have copies of my lesson for the day. A lesson plan, which I am sad to admit, I agonized over picking out.