As I thought about region that are in needed for many thing like Haiti and Japan with their earthquakes or Libya and Egypt with civil unrest I decide to look closer to home and remember a report I had seen about the children of the Appalachian mountains. Many of these children live in extreme poverty some with no hope of ever getting out. Many of their parents have low paying jobs or no job at all or the they are addicted to painkiller which they use or sell for money that does not go back to their families but to support the drug habit. The few who do make it out of the mountains and hollows come back to teach or coach at the local school. They make it out through scholarships for grades and athletics. Many of the children suffer from malnutrition or dental disease, teens live in cars or friends just to make to school each day or not have parents steal from them.
Things have changed in this area but change comes very slowly form them,just like many places in inner cities that have the same problems.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=6865077
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