Daring to Dream: A Success Story
Children International's Programs Are Designed to Provide the Tools Needed to Fight Poverty, But It Takes Courage to Find the Kind of Success that CI Program Graduate Connie Achieved
Mar 16, 2015 8:10 AM ET
By Ashley Puderbaugh. Photos and reporting assistance by Eduardo Uy Jr.
Wearing a crisp, light-blue uniform, Connie stops to chat with two women as she walks to work. As a police community relations advocate, it is her duty to uphold the image of the police force while fulfilling her oath to protect her community. She proudly bears those responsibilities.
The 25-year-old Children International program graduate is an officer for the National Police Commission of Rapu-Rapu Island, Tabaco, Philippines. Her beaming smile shows how grateful she is to have found success and to have attained her dream of helping others.
But reaching that dream? That's another story.
