We grow up not thinking much about what it takes to be a responsible parent until we become one our selves. I‘m speaking for my self. As long as I can remember we have been involved on our daughter’s education and activities, sometime it was hard to make time to attend the activities that our kids were involved with-- between my wife and I we had to take turns to make sure that we do the best we can to be there for our kids.
One day after school Kenya told us that there was a meeting downtown for “Child Leader Project.” I didn't know any thing about this group. But, we attended the meeting. I was very skeptical, I guess this is one of the functions that we have as a parent. As the meeting progressed it started to make a lot of sense: bringing youth together to help with the community, show the youth the path to focus in life and to make a better world.
...and my child was interested in doing all these? Why not.
Then one day that Kenya came home and told us that she has chosen to go to India with CLP. I then knew that we had to make every sacrifice to make this happen for our child. We met Samantha and quite frankly the transparency that she and the rest of the young adults reflected made it possible to feel comfortable about letting our daughter go to India and experience a different culture that will help Kenya with her desired on making a difference in the world.
We Love you Kenya and want to tell you on how proud we are. Thank you Sam and the entire CLP team for making this possible.
Sincerely
Mr. and Mrs. Armando Padilla
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