I volunteer in an inner city near to me once a week to mentor kids who have dropped out of school. They suffer because they live in an envirnonment that cheats them daily. The schools are lousy and only 30% of the kids in this city graduate. Food is more expensive because there are no Wallmarts or supermarket in the city. Of course the prison is there and a nice sewerage plant. No one from the burbs want to go there because of crime, poverty and drugs. Yet they are worthy of our attention and dare I say love and if you go you will learn more than you anticipate. For those who think the private sector solves all problems, it provides stark evidence that is not true. As a Christian, I feel we havean obligation to do more than send money and to get at the root of the problems. Chalk it up to the damn good samaritan parable
