Lashon Amado: My Path Out of Poverty

 

This video was published on YouTube on July 14, 2015.

How can young people who grow up in neighborhoods with more liquor stores than grocery stores, more drug dealers than college students, and more funerals than weddings, break out of the cycle of poverty and achieve their full potential? Lashon Amado, one of our country's most inspirational young leaders, shares his moving, personal story of how YouthBuild USA helped him create a path out of poverty and live the American dream. 

Source: TEDx Talks