What chance has a bright kid born where the streets have no name?

I WORK with a remarkable woman. I won’t tell you her name because it might help to reveal the identity of the boy she told us about at a function the other night.

What chance has a bright kid born where the streets have no name?

She has spent her entire career working with boys like this. And she, like all her colleagues, never gives up on them.

This is Stephen’s story, as she told it. Stephen isn’t his real name, but his story is true in every other respect.

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