Forty-nine-year-old Jon Bon Jovi has made millions of dollars as a recording artist. He`s won numbers awards for his albums and he`s even campaigned for three presidents. But it was a request by President Obama that finally brought him to Houston.
"The president`s directive was quite simple: show me organizations that are running and get back results.
The Obama Administration formed what`s called the Council for Community Solutions, prominent men and women who travel across the land and bind round table discussions with American youth.
"I`m absolutely not hither to provide advice. I`m here to listen, take information and cover it up the ladder. I`m not in an official capacity here as you section of, anything more than a counsel."
During his Houston stop, Bon Jovi heard from teens involved in various local programs. People like 18-year-old Ray Rangel, who`s had a rough childhood, but is stressful to staying positive.
"I came up in a single parent home. My mom struggled most of our lives to keep me and my comrade and my sister. Basically, I`m here through Communities in School. It has helped me with a lot of stuff, mainly motivation, because the about part I`ve lacked through -I see the struggles and I only need to open up sometimes."
Bon Jovi also listened to Houston`s Maria Baldit. A teenage mom who`s hoping to make a better life then her immigrant parents.
"I`m actually going to get to be somebody, not simply working full sentence in restaurant or something. I`m actually going to go to college and be somebody, for my child and myself."
With the money and freedom to do just about whatever he wants, I asked Bon Joviwhy he got tangled in the president`s program.
"I`ve been blessed a zillion times ended and I know my job. But my job is exactly what I do, it's not who I am. And I`m also a father. A mother of 4 and I find a piece of who I am is giving back and this is something where I don`t want a scientist to make the cure. We can fact find. We can build a difference we can implement change."
The celebrated singer will make what he learns from his discussions and pass the entropy to the white house. Bon Jovi says he`s had a full life, now he`s hoping to have life better for others as well.
The image courtesy of the Council for Community Solutions Website.
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