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Hannah Hawkins: 'Mother' to Dozens |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / PEOPLE IN THE NEWS |
| Author: Robert R. Selle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 1,668 Words, 9,767 Characters |
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One is the "chemical beast" of drug and alcohol abuse. Another is unwanted children--"boarder babies" who are provided residence in hospitals and youngsters who are bounced callously from one foster home to another. Yet a third is the stream of young black addicts whom the criminal justice system "chews up" while ignoring treatment for their addiction.
"This is why I deal with the children," she says in an interview. "I believe in getting them as young as I possibly can."
In 1992, she founded the Children of Mine Center, which feeds, clothes, and provides a home away from home for almost 100 youngsters who are free to come by seven days a week. Thus, latchkey children or neglected or abused boys and girls are assured of a safe haven from the run-down, sometimes violence-ridden co...
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...on, the activist says: "I like her spunk. She went into a state where they said she was a foreigner, didn't belong, and through the grace of God, she won it, in spite of the odds. I admire people like that."
Summing up her sometimes sorrowful, sometimes joyful--but always full--life, she says: "I'll tell you, life may not be fair, but God is good. And that's whom I hold on to."
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