1 00:01:28,34 --> 00:01:28,90 Seventeen 2 00:01:28,90 --> 00:01:34,75 and a half million people one third of all rural families are left behind in an age 3 00:01:34,75 --> 00:01:35,26 of technology 4 00:01:35,26 --> 00:01:41,18 and industrial products namely some of them large families make less than three 5 00:01:41,18 --> 00:01:45,00 thousand dollars a year White Negro. 6 00:01:46,40 --> 00:01:51,60 American Indian Spanish American farmers its farmers 7 00:01:52,42 --> 00:01:59,35 and even former coma people struggling with poor 8 00:01:59,35 --> 00:02:03,56 house. Limited education few employment opportunities 9 00:02:05,10 --> 00:02:09,85 and little hope throughout America. Regardless of race or heritage. 10 00:02:10,14 --> 00:02:14,43 They are trapped in a life they did not choose a life they feel powerless to change 11 00:02:18,77 --> 00:02:25,47 their banner over their arms crossed frequently looking than walking 12 00:02:27,26 --> 00:02:32,30 slowly they don't see any quickness or brightness they just defeated 13 00:02:33,70 --> 00:02:35,18 and hopelessness 14 00:02:54,67 --> 00:02:55,00 that own 15 00:03:01,88 --> 00:03:08,01 family picture of sixty 16 00:03:10,22 --> 00:03:17,16 six dollars yet we now know 17 00:03:17,16 --> 00:03:18,70 their lives can be changed. 18 00:03:19,17 --> 00:03:23,86 These people can join the rest of America in a life of plenty 19 00:03:25,02 --> 00:03:26,86 but improvement can only come 20 00:03:26,86 --> 00:03:31,71 when all the segments of the population join together in an effort dedicated to 21 00:03:31,71 --> 00:03:37,23 providing opportunities for these people not more welfare checks but opportunity. 22 00:03:37,39 --> 00:03:39,46 So they can use their own willingness 23 00:03:39,46 --> 00:03:42,36 and ability to become self-sufficient citizens. 24 00:03:43,51 --> 00:03:47,64 For example it is difficult for a small farmer like this one to get along in the 25 00:03:47,64 --> 00:03:53,15 fast moving world around him his gross income for the previous year was thirty five 26 00:03:53,15 --> 00:03:55,45 hundred dollars out of that. 27 00:03:55,73 --> 00:03:59,94 Three thousand dollars had to be put back in the farm leaving. 28 00:04:00,00 --> 00:04:01,94 Five hundred dollars for his own use. 29 00:04:01,96 --> 00:04:02,71 He 30 00:04:02,71 --> 00:04:09,03 and his wife struggle with no running water no power of their own low lying with land 31 00:04:09,03 --> 00:04:10,27 and feels full of rocks. 32 00:04:11,81 --> 00:04:14,41 They have some cows but no need for the right kind of feed. 33 00:04:14,94 --> 00:04:18,63 As a result the cows cannot produce as well as they should 34 00:04:19,35 --> 00:04:25,08 and the farmer's income drops to lower his chosen way of life becomes more 35 00:04:25,08 --> 00:04:30,67 and more difficult to maintain his ambitious proud of the farm buildings 36 00:04:30,67 --> 00:04:34,96 that he built himself. Sorry to have to or money when it's insidious 37 00:04:35,69 --> 00:04:38,26 and distressed at the prospect of losing his farm 38 00:04:39,60 --> 00:04:45,27 and get right among the elves systems on the farm. 39 00:04:45,27 --> 00:04:48,80 I know I can make a go of it again meet 40 00:04:53,31 --> 00:04:54,01 can stare. 41 00:04:54,25 --> 00:05:00,11 And have surely will know what else to do the work of farming I've been here all my 42 00:05:00,11 --> 00:05:02,58 life. Sure I'd like to stay here 43 00:05:03,46 --> 00:05:06,48 when farmers leave it affects the entire area 44 00:05:06,48 --> 00:05:10,29 and one time in a large family living here. 45 00:05:10,90 --> 00:05:14,50 Made their living over the farm. 46 00:05:14,51 --> 00:05:18,85 And farming the small. 47 00:05:18,87 --> 00:05:21,74 Areas their own vegetables and noone gardens. 48 00:05:22,95 --> 00:05:25,46 But it seems like that that is all gone. 49 00:05:27,12 --> 00:05:33,27 And swept away from us if we could help them just a little to 50 00:05:34,30 --> 00:05:36,93 live in these communities and make a home here. 51 00:05:38,44 --> 00:05:43,38 We think would be of great benefit to our cities and also our areas. 52 00:05:44,90 --> 00:05:51,17 The loss of this type of farm the family farm it has been a great disaster to. 53 00:05:51,87 --> 00:05:57,25 Our particular part of the world here. It has taken the people. 54 00:05:57,72 --> 00:06:04,32 Away from us. Our towns have lost the trade business. 55 00:06:04,34 --> 00:06:07,42 The people have lost their lives lost. 56 00:06:08,54 --> 00:06:13,66 It's a losing proposition our whole philosophy of life here. The family farm. 57 00:06:14,32 --> 00:06:21,15 Has been destroyed some communities are seeking 58 00:06:21,15 --> 00:06:24,21 ways to help the farmers and keep them on the land. 59 00:06:25,35 --> 00:06:31,02 We've had a demonstration farm program in connection with our work to help improve 60 00:06:31,03 --> 00:06:32,32 on livestock 61 00:06:32,32 --> 00:06:36,93 and having better crops Center building up the saw 62 00:06:37,91 --> 00:06:39,38 and various forms of conservation. 63 00:06:39,86 --> 00:06:45,09 We have move more to the project method in order to suggest ways in which our 64 00:06:45,09 --> 00:06:48,05 people at least supplement their income. 65 00:06:49,75 --> 00:06:50,72 One of the things 66 00:06:50,72 --> 00:06:57,50 that we are trying to do is to carry on work at our sorghum mill where people raise 67 00:06:57,50 --> 00:06:58,12 Cain 68 00:06:58,89 --> 00:07:05,97 and then bring it to the mill for processing this is a project in which we have been 69 00:07:05,98 --> 00:07:09,29 able to get the people to take much of the initiative. 70 00:07:09,56 --> 00:07:16,24 We have provided some leadership however we have a full time director of economic 71 00:07:16,24 --> 00:07:18,13 development in our program. 72 00:07:18,61 --> 00:07:23,68 The purpose of this project the start of the project is to help the people of this 73 00:07:23,68 --> 00:07:30,10 area to help themselves what we're really trying to do is to help really two 74 00:07:30,10 --> 00:07:34,74 classes of people those farmers who would bring cane and to the mill 75 00:07:35,56 --> 00:07:41,79 and also to help those who might be able to work here at the mill one of the firm 76 00:07:41,79 --> 00:07:45,02 convictions that we do have about our mountain people is 77 00:07:45,02 --> 00:07:47,43 that they do want to help themselves. 78 00:07:47,85 --> 00:07:52,14 If given an opportunity doesn't necessarily have to be a Sargon project 79 00:07:52,14 --> 00:07:54,73 that we feel is one of the most important things is 80 00:07:54,73 --> 00:07:59,85 that local communities organize themselves and attempt to work it up. 81 00:08:00,00 --> 00:08:03,65 Themselves together rather than depending on someone else to come in from the 82 00:08:03,65 --> 00:08:10,04 outside and furnish their resources in terms of leadership and finances. 83 00:08:10,21 --> 00:08:13,15 I don't mean most when local communities can organize themselves 84 00:08:14,02 --> 00:08:18,54 and develop projects together. But industry is only part of the answer. 85 00:08:20,78 --> 00:08:24,80 Sometimes a relatively small improvement can mean the difference between success 86 00:08:24,80 --> 00:08:26,79 and failure. 87 00:08:26,81 --> 00:08:33,08 The most important thing in the valley of ours here is that water without water. 88 00:08:33,15 --> 00:08:34,47 We cannot do anything. 89 00:08:34,74 --> 00:08:39,33 Every year the people of this farming community put up a brush dam in an effort to 90 00:08:39,33 --> 00:08:40,42 get water for their crops 91 00:08:41,58 --> 00:08:47,98 but every year the dam washed away in the flood many people got discouraged left 92 00:08:47,99 --> 00:08:53,21 that far to move away those who remained refused to be defeated. 93 00:08:54,50 --> 00:08:56,68 This time they worked with the state and federal governments 94 00:08:57,53 --> 00:09:00,49 and received technical help and some equipment. 95 00:09:01,60 --> 00:09:04,11 The people worked without any paid to build the new dam 96 00:09:05,01 --> 00:09:07,96 and it is now blasted the flood. 97 00:09:08,82 --> 00:09:14,35 Then you see behind us now is the most important thing for the people in this 98 00:09:14,35 --> 00:09:20,63 community and mostly because we needed with our own hands 99 00:09:20,63 --> 00:09:24,86 and the people are very proud because a gun that was in Sale. 100 00:09:32,42 --> 00:09:36,19 Rural property involves more than the specific problems of farmers. 101 00:09:37,30 --> 00:09:44,18 It's a thick so widespread children are especially hard hit by nature full of life 102 00:09:44,18 --> 00:09:50,87 exuberance eager to learn children are crushed by pocket hunger 103 00:09:50,88 --> 00:09:51,60 malnutrition 104 00:09:51,60 --> 00:09:58,08 and disease often stifle the young lives before they have a chance to develop their 105 00:09:58,09 --> 00:09:58,86 undernourished. 106 00:10:00,00 --> 00:10:06,62 Amount rather they get more I answered saying the same out of one hundred children 107 00:10:06,62 --> 00:10:09,68 and families have passed. 108 00:10:09,72 --> 00:10:10,63 Which means 109 00:10:12,59 --> 00:10:17,92 that thousands of children go to school each day 110 00:10:19,59 --> 00:10:24,66 to day with anything to eat. Because they do not have money. 111 00:10:25,40 --> 00:10:26,50 Well I would love to see 112 00:10:33,67 --> 00:10:38,57 the children entering many they had no breakfast before leaving home 113 00:10:40,00 --> 00:10:46,54 but this school found a way to get early in the morning the cafeteria staff is paid 114 00:10:46,54 --> 00:10:48,35 by the regular school lunch program 115 00:10:48,35 --> 00:10:54,59 and the extra food is provided by the federal government as a result the children 116 00:10:54,59 --> 00:10:59,70 no longer have to think things through a long day of classes on an empty stomach. 117 00:11:00,40 --> 00:11:05,29 What about the child who comes from an inadequate home where he gets no encourage 118 00:11:05,29 --> 00:11:10,87 went from a parent's doesn't have enough the way he doesn't have enough to eat 119 00:11:11,64 --> 00:11:16,83 becomes to school hungry becomes school without having any experience in the past 120 00:11:16,83 --> 00:11:20,37 with books anyone at home to help the family 121 00:11:21,41 --> 00:11:28,33 that are prostration in this prayer center demonstration 122 00:11:28,34 --> 00:11:33,60 research project to give these children an opportunity. 123 00:11:34,56 --> 00:11:35,40 To have the experience 124 00:11:37,53 --> 00:11:43,89 and education to better prepare them for the first and later education. 125 00:11:45,07 --> 00:11:51,24 These children at this particular area without this experience would be spending 126 00:11:51,98 --> 00:11:58,57 their time at home which are not equipped to give them the time then in which we 127 00:11:59,70 --> 00:11:59,86 ever. 128 00:12:14,31 --> 00:12:19,71 An operation now a year of our young boys 129 00:12:19,71 --> 00:12:24,30 and girls were staying home to take care of children. 130 00:12:24,32 --> 00:12:29,59 So therefore we were interested in providing some type of these children then 131 00:12:29,59 --> 00:12:30,12 another thing 132 00:12:30,12 --> 00:12:37,50 that we thought in terms of if we could get the daycare center people will 133 00:12:37,50 --> 00:12:38,96 employ another thing 134 00:12:38,96 --> 00:12:44,68 that we were very concerned with these children parents would be able to 135 00:12:45,51 --> 00:12:49,38 and they wouldn't have to worry about one of their children doing. 136 00:12:49,40 --> 00:12:56,37 Another thing the other community is interested in trying to provide some type of 137 00:12:57,15 --> 00:13:11,83 care for the children. 138 00:13:11,85 --> 00:13:12,66 When they run out of 139 00:13:21,77 --> 00:13:24,76 school. 140 00:13:24,78 --> 00:13:27,26 My brother talked to him 141 00:13:28,67 --> 00:13:35,46 but he never 142 00:13:35,46 --> 00:13:37,21 did have what he needed. 143 00:13:40,93 --> 00:13:47,61 He had to pay for all the other kids 144 00:13:55,77 --> 00:14:00,35 actually. I don't know. 145 00:14:02,34 --> 00:14:08,62 We do occasionally have a few who cannot make make out in the public school. 146 00:14:08,63 --> 00:14:14,04 They are so far behind from not having attended school regularly in their own homes 147 00:14:15,17 --> 00:14:21,69 that they are too frustrated to learn in the public school they. 148 00:14:22,67 --> 00:14:26,92 They feel I can't do it and they as a result their behavior is difficult 149 00:14:26,92 --> 00:14:30,75 and the teachers find it very difficult to teach them. 150 00:14:31,89 --> 00:14:36,98 For these children we have a special class here on our campus where they can 151 00:14:38,12 --> 00:14:43,52 hopefully receive the kind of individual attention they can use to get a new 152 00:14:44,53 --> 00:14:45,71 attitude toward learning 153 00:14:45,71 --> 00:14:51,03 and an interest in learning which they haven't had before these children present 154 00:14:51,03 --> 00:14:56,70 time or are all teenagers working about on the third or fourth grade level. 155 00:14:57,53 --> 00:15:01,51 Three weeks that I ever was and I've gotten to know more about them 156 00:15:02,40 --> 00:15:07,96 and can see what difference there is between a child here in the hills who's had a 157 00:15:07,96 --> 00:15:14,08 rough environment to one who would be another state or another area. 158 00:15:14,23 --> 00:15:18,16 I feel that just from work standards themselves work habits 159 00:15:18,16 --> 00:15:19,33 and their attitude about them. 160 00:15:21,02 --> 00:15:24,89 That they would be much different if they had had a good normal. 161 00:15:25,32 --> 00:15:31,55 Bringing And I think there is very definitely in all three children not perhaps so 162 00:15:31,55 --> 00:15:35,33 much as me but Jimmy has possibilities 163 00:15:36,08 --> 00:15:40,32 and is of intelligent it's not a bad and I feel 164 00:15:40,32 --> 00:15:44,02 that he has a good mind when he wants to use it 165 00:15:44,02 --> 00:15:50,07 but he's been defeated so many times being exposed to being in school. 166 00:15:50,28 --> 00:15:56,62 He just longer has a desire to learn so that he does make the effort to learn 167 00:15:56,62 --> 00:16:02,48 and succeed. There'll be a job for him and for many others like him. 168 00:16:02,62 --> 00:16:05,07 We need help work. 169 00:16:05,24 --> 00:16:09,34 That's why we have just a job yet not allowed to work 170 00:16:18,84 --> 00:16:19,61 when industry 171 00:16:19,61 --> 00:16:24,77 and government work together these people can be trained to work well in new jobs 172 00:16:26,02 --> 00:16:31,32 to Korea carpet mills became a dream in the minds of several of us a dream 173 00:16:31,32 --> 00:16:32,61 that had a purpose and 174 00:16:32,61 --> 00:16:37,72 that purpose was to provide the opportunity for employment for people such as these 175 00:16:37,72 --> 00:16:38,69 here in this room 176 00:16:39,43 --> 00:16:43,78 but without this our other industrial opportunity would not have a job. 177 00:16:44,94 --> 00:16:45,93 There are many obstacles to overcome 178 00:16:46,79 --> 00:16:49,00 and the establishing of a new industry in an area 179 00:16:49,00 --> 00:16:55,02 that had never had any experience in textiles all of the local people had to be 180 00:16:55,02 --> 00:16:57,01 trained trained in jobs 181 00:16:57,01 --> 00:17:00,44 that are scale where we have no unskilled labor in our plant. 182 00:17:01,24 --> 00:17:03,79 This was accomplished through cooperation of the state 183 00:17:03,79 --> 00:17:07,41 and federal government in their various training programs and we found 184 00:17:07,41 --> 00:17:10,50 that these people not only were anxious and willing 185 00:17:10,50 --> 00:17:14,82 but in some instances learn faster than people who had grown up around textiles. 186 00:17:15,51 --> 00:17:16,83 We've had a lot of thrills 187 00:17:16,83 --> 00:17:21,06 and seeing these things come about our job isn't finished 188 00:17:21,06 --> 00:17:23,91 and we've got along well and I seriously doubt 189 00:17:23,91 --> 00:17:28,61 that our one little unbeliever here could alleviate the poverty in the area because 190 00:17:28,61 --> 00:17:29,82 there are still a lot of people 191 00:17:29,82 --> 00:17:33,95 that need an opportunity we have many many applications on file right now. 192 00:17:34,93 --> 00:17:41,89 There are such things as one Indian man who had several children first week he was 193 00:17:41,89 --> 00:17:43,30 here is why I had to come down 194 00:17:43,30 --> 00:17:46,06 and get the car from him so she could put the commodities 195 00:17:46,99 --> 00:17:52,33 that she received in the back of the car is free from the rest of the working 196 00:17:52,33 --> 00:17:54,42 society to help them not starve to death. 197 00:17:54,74 --> 00:17:59,94 This is a program that I am sure is very beneficial and we're not criticizing. 198 00:18:00,81 --> 00:18:05,24 But a person receiving something without getting sensing return does not have the 199 00:18:05,24 --> 00:18:05,75 self-respect 200 00:18:05,75 --> 00:18:10,48 that they need to really be a good American citizen at our grand opening. 201 00:18:11,12 --> 00:18:12,70 We saw a little boy. 202 00:18:12,71 --> 00:18:17,25 Under the rope that we set out and this boy's father had been the man 203 00:18:17,25 --> 00:18:22,17 that had given the keys to his car to get the commodities the first week he had 204 00:18:22,17 --> 00:18:25,77 been there for about four five years old ran into the rope 205 00:18:25,77 --> 00:18:29,71 and pointed his father and said in a great big loud voice. 206 00:18:29,85 --> 00:18:31,13 That's my daddy 207 00:18:31,97 --> 00:18:35,23 and all of it said new the story of this particular man got tears in her eyes 208 00:18:35,23 --> 00:18:37,77 because that boy couldn't point with pride 209 00:18:37,77 --> 00:18:40,79 that that's my daddy there doing a good day's work 210 00:18:40,79 --> 00:18:42,59 and getting an honest day's pay for. 211 00:18:45,38 --> 00:18:50,41 Even with a job a man may have to return at night to a did a leopard needed crowded 212 00:18:50,41 --> 00:18:55,13 shack where is incentive and determination can slowly away. 213 00:18:55,87 --> 00:18:58,94 I think the most immediate then the most drastic need 214 00:18:59,89 --> 00:19:04,74 and that's parents especially in this county is housing. 215 00:19:04,75 --> 00:19:10,64 As in this county ninety nine percent of the residences are frame 216 00:19:11,48 --> 00:19:17,72 and there are from twenty to thirty five to forty years old and then patched 217 00:19:17,72 --> 00:19:18,45 and colored up 218 00:19:18,45 --> 00:19:23,86 and tell their they don't look too bad from the outside as you pass but 219 00:19:23,87 --> 00:19:27,11 that actually have fallen on the faces. 220 00:19:28,72 --> 00:19:34,95 Ninety five percent of the homes have an Scientologists now water because out of 221 00:19:34,95 --> 00:19:37,41 here. They have water on end of the house 222 00:19:38,51 --> 00:19:40,46 and they stand by private out on the ground. 223 00:19:42,08 --> 00:19:45,51 Well I've heard a lot of tales lack that silence all those that know how 224 00:19:45,51 --> 00:19:51,71 and then having running water and no life no X. It is a bunch of tommy rot. 225 00:19:51,73 --> 00:19:56,20 You didn't like it. Would you like it. 226 00:19:56,22 --> 00:19:59,31 These people found a way to do something about it. 227 00:20:00,00 --> 00:20:04,90 With a government loan only sufficient to buy materials this family set about 228 00:20:04,90 --> 00:20:06,69 repairing their house themselves. 229 00:20:07,95 --> 00:20:11,30 It is not an easy job after working a long day on the farm. 230 00:20:11,74 --> 00:20:15,65 But they are succeeding because of their powerful desire for something better. 231 00:20:16,92 --> 00:20:20,02 Now has been I worry so worry about getting our house. 232 00:20:20,64 --> 00:20:22,48 Fixed for this winter 233 00:20:22,48 --> 00:20:29,39 and then we started worrying how we would be able to go on with the 234 00:20:29,39 --> 00:20:35,33 house we didn't have any cheerio to to work and. 235 00:20:35,35 --> 00:20:42,24 My husband couldn't do anything about it. He had to work to support the family. 236 00:20:43,21 --> 00:20:45,14 He was working he couldn't do anything here. 237 00:20:46,58 --> 00:20:51,24 Well anyway we found out from somebody that we could and then we could have 238 00:20:51,24 --> 00:20:54,65 and so I thought man that has been 239 00:20:54,65 --> 00:20:58,97 and we finally decided to go in and see about it 240 00:21:01,35 --> 00:21:05,40 and I don't know whether we have we have done with our home we it hadn't been for 241 00:21:06,24 --> 00:21:09,83 for we haven't had that with all this. 242 00:21:12,47 --> 00:21:17,74 Plastering side. I guess. 243 00:21:18,73 --> 00:21:22,57 December. I hope so. 244 00:21:23,47 --> 00:21:27,32 So I do all my best for my family to live there. 245 00:21:28,37 --> 00:21:31,40 This is only one family among millions. 246 00:21:31,42 --> 00:21:34,43 These people were fortunate enough to be able to get help. 247 00:21:34,50 --> 00:21:38,30 But such a system should be available to all who need it. 248 00:21:38,43 --> 00:21:43,18 Massive programs must be launched programs that consider the fact 249 00:21:43,18 --> 00:21:47,42 that impoverished communities can contribute only a small part of the necessary 250 00:21:47,42 --> 00:21:53,36 funds the people of each community must get to know each other understand each 251 00:21:53,36 --> 00:21:59,41 other. And finally act together. James to me that this is what we've got to do. 252 00:22:00,00 --> 00:22:02,41 Any county that is really interested. 253 00:22:02,55 --> 00:22:09,01 It's got to bring together a good strong basis of public support not only 254 00:22:10,86 --> 00:22:11,87 interested person. 255 00:22:12,79 --> 00:22:15,68 There's got to be representation from the county commissioners 256 00:22:15,68 --> 00:22:19,52 and city governments from all of the agencies that are concerned. 257 00:22:21,28 --> 00:22:26,14 Community colleges industrial education standards welfare and health agencies. 258 00:22:26,53 --> 00:22:27,51 Climate Service 259 00:22:28,49 --> 00:22:34,46 and there's also got to be representation involvement participation by 260 00:22:36,02 --> 00:22:40,83 leaders in the community is where the people that most need help. 261 00:22:41,65 --> 00:22:47,01 We've got to understand how these people look around like what they're what they 262 00:22:47,01 --> 00:22:54,00 see as the barriers to their finding jobs finding 263 00:22:54,01 --> 00:23:00,70 opportunities for themselves and their children ages get a mountain community 264 00:23:00,70 --> 00:23:05,88 and Washington County Virginia our community like many others where a few men 265 00:23:05,88 --> 00:23:09,03 became concerned and anxious to do something for their town. 266 00:23:10,52 --> 00:23:14,37 The important thing was to unify the people who are scattered throughout the area 267 00:23:15,84 --> 00:23:18,22 seizing upon the idea of a community club. 268 00:23:18,63 --> 00:23:21,48 They held their first meeting a meeting 269 00:23:21,48 --> 00:23:24,32 that included about seventy members of the community itself 270 00:23:25,20 --> 00:23:27,62 and people from all the government branches in the county. 271 00:23:27,64 --> 00:23:34,62 One thing was stretched everyone had to be involved to do this they launched a 272 00:23:34,62 --> 00:23:39,86 number of programs particularly in the field of recreation baseball games in the 273 00:23:39,86 --> 00:23:42,01 afternoon and picnics in the evening 274 00:23:43,06 --> 00:23:46,70 but money was needed for these projects to raise it. 275 00:23:46,80 --> 00:23:49,37 They set up a lunch stand in the donated garage 276 00:23:49,37 --> 00:23:53,44 and rotating groups of volunteers from the community operated on weekends. 277 00:23:54,74 --> 00:23:59,19 Now the community wanted to broaden the scope of its projects involve the whole 278 00:23:59,19 --> 00:24:04,16 county. Do more to help people to accomplish this. 279 00:24:04,46 --> 00:24:07,22 The director of the program wrote a letter asking for help. 280 00:24:08,34 --> 00:24:11,77 The letter arrived at the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington 281 00:24:11,77 --> 00:24:15,16 and almost immediately the townspeople had some help. 282 00:24:16,13 --> 00:24:18,40 They learned of the office of the economic opportunity 283 00:24:18,40 --> 00:24:22,94 and were able to present their plans as a result they received a grant 284 00:24:22,94 --> 00:24:28,68 approximately sixty seven thousand dollars to develop programs to combat poverty in 285 00:24:28,68 --> 00:24:34,25 the county one of the most successful of these is the home visitation program. 286 00:24:35,35 --> 00:24:39,43 One young man only nineteen years old works with high school dropouts and others. 287 00:24:41,30 --> 00:24:45,11 I meet him in homes and on the streets and many particular places 288 00:24:46,34 --> 00:24:51,86 and peculiar places to resonate today. And talk with some again or confidants. 289 00:24:53,27 --> 00:24:56,54 Persuade them to go to a the technical school back to house the lady 290 00:24:57,29 --> 00:24:59,49 and doing theirs take them to technical school. 291 00:25:01,34 --> 00:25:03,04 At some time to be there 292 00:25:03,78 --> 00:25:09,85 and explain bangs such as a crisis of courses around devised for this 293 00:25:10,74 --> 00:25:12,17 they become interested in theirs 294 00:25:13,30 --> 00:25:16,20 and they say they will enroll in a technical school. 295 00:25:18,79 --> 00:25:23,97 Take a trade and become specialized in ears sang 296 00:25:23,97 --> 00:25:28,54 but I am particularly interested in is the illiterate people like specially the 297 00:25:28,54 --> 00:25:33,19 young and the people. In this age. 298 00:25:33,50 --> 00:25:39,89 Many in the vast areas they are just lost 299 00:25:41,18 --> 00:25:43,55 for has been a great deal of time 300 00:25:44,58 --> 00:25:48,77 and put forth a little more effort each day to help these people to learn this. 301 00:25:50,00 --> 00:25:52,44 Reading and writing so they can go to school 302 00:25:53,27 --> 00:25:56,94 and take their place in this everyday world. 303 00:25:58,30 --> 00:26:04,28 Another worker in the home is a teacher. Program is around the community. 304 00:26:04,30 --> 00:26:05,63 Presenting the programs 305 00:26:05,63 --> 00:26:12,54 and the people. 306 00:26:21,53 --> 00:26:28,92 Expect. 307 00:26:38,88 --> 00:26:53,78 An exciting. 308 00:26:56,28 --> 00:27:03,61 Side. 309 00:27:08,27 --> 00:27:12,29 That Washington 310 00:27:15,07 --> 00:27:16,41 government stands ready to help 311 00:27:19,86 --> 00:27:25,39 but the communities themselves must take part with 312 00:27:28,34 --> 00:27:46,03 a creative partnership between economic opportunity. 313 00:27:46,04 --> 00:27:46,76 Much more 314 00:27:53,72 --> 00:27:56,42 accomplished when his goals are high and his determination.