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Low-Income Men Change Their Lives to Become Dads |
| Section: LIFE / FAMILY |
| Author: Denise Barnes |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 595 Words, 3,834 Characters |
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Tanner Raboya spent 27 years--more than half his life--hustling and shooting heroin. He went to prison and left his partner to raise their three small children. Those days of drugs and aimlessness are over, says the 44-year-old D.C. native. He is rebuilding his life around the pillars of work, faith and fatherhood.
Raboya participates in the Fatherhood Initiative, a three-year-old Washington, D.C., program that helps low-income fathers serve their families. In 2004, the ...
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...articipant, said he is focusing on making a better life for his 6-month-old son.
Through the Arch Training Center, he is acquiring experience that he hopes will lead to a job in construction and maybe his own business. Through it all, he plans to be there for his son.
"It's hitting me now. I just want to be the father I never had," he said.
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