Saturday, March 14, 2009
Sunday, March 08, 2009
With Samuel, Wolff from ILRio and CDI founder Rodrigo Baggio, and NY board member Noah Goodnight, visiting a leading CDI school and listening first hand to Wanderson da Silva Scrock. He was a veteran of juvenile detention centers at the age of 17. He headed the financial operation of Comando Vermelho, one of Rio’s biggest drug gangs that controlled 13 different favelas in the city. In prison, he took a course at a CDI school and started training to be an instructor. Today, he teaches at this center, a 3 hours commute each way. In the process, he has discovered two new passions: information technology and the ability to inspire others to follow his example of successful reform.
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- Pablo
- This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
