When I was a little girl in Kenya ... child all I wanted to do was play hide and seek and netball. So her words fell on deaf ears. When she told us to work hard, we played harder.

It’s just sad,” said one grant recipient about the president’s decision to cut off funding for the AmeriCorps program.

When I was a little girl in Kenya, hardly a day would pass without my mother repeating those words to my four siblings and me. Because I was a child all I wanted to do was play hide and seek and ...