This is how a guy just 13 year-old was able to gather around 1.4 millions of dollars

“Who’s influenced you the most in your life?” “My principal, Ms. Lopez.” “How has she influenced you?” “When we get in trouble, she doesn’t suspend us. She calls us to her office and explains to us how society was built down around us. And she tells us that each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built. And one time she made every student stand up, one at a time, and she told each one of us that we matter.”

A photo posted by Humans of New York (humansofny) on Jan 19, 2015 at 4:20pm PST

Todo en beneficio de su escuela en Brownsville, Brooklyn.

Nadia Lopez is the director of the Mott Hall Bridges Academy, una escuela pública en Brownsville, Brooklyn: uno de los vecindarios más pobres y vulnerables de Nueva York. La mujer estaba realmente preocupada, for he felt that his effort to get the children along was not giving the expected results. He felt that his work was invisible to the rest of the world. But when a student spoke about it and taught them how to be better people, things began to change.

It all started with a chance meeting between a student 13 year old, Vidal Chastanet, and photographer Brandon Stanton; the man behind one of the most popular photo blogs Internet:

“Humanos de Nueva York” es un famoso blog fotográfico de imágenes artísticas tomadas en las calles de la ciudad de Nueva York, United States. El proyecto tiene un gran seguimiento por parte de los usuarios de las redes sociales, reaching 12 millones de seguidores en Facebook. Durante los últimos cinco años,Stanton took street portraits of New Yorkers, while making them intimate and personal questions, which are then published on the page, en Facebook y en Instagram.

When he met Chastanet, He could learn about the neighborhood where he lived: “Cuando vives aquí, You learn not to be afraid. It's that you've seen almost everything that life can throw. When I had 9, I saw a guy pushed from the roof of the building, right there ". Porque la vida en Brownsville, a neighborhood with high rates of poverty and crime, It is not at all easy. This photo was published photographer:

"Who is the person who has most influenced you in your life? The director of my school, No Lopez. And how has it influenced you? When we get into trouble, it does not suspend nor punishes us. She calls us to his office and explains how society is set. It tells us that every time someone fails out of school, built a new cell. And once made all the students stand up, one by one, and he told us all that we were importing".

The post became viral in a matter of seconds. So the photographer does not hesitate to contact the manager and start shooting at the school students. And the more he talked with them and their teachers, the more he realized that it was necessary to do something for them. Era necesario darle un empuje al establecimiento y apoyar a todos esos niños en situación vulnerable.

So, and together with Nadia Lopez, devised a Bell para enviar a los alumnos de la Mott Hall Bridges Academy a Harvard. The message? Show that in life there are no limits, provided they have the effort and motivation. The spirit of the campaign was to strengthen the self-esteem of boys, maintain the illusion alive ...

But they never expected to get as many donations: 51.465 People from around the world contributed to the cause, y llegaron a recolectar $1,417,834 on 3 months. Enough to send young students to Harvard money around 10 consecutive years.

Puedes revisar la historia completa y conocer a Chastanet a continuación:

Quite an achievement, no? And is that, simply, to speak with such candor and sincerity, The boy managed to help thousands.

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