Jasmine | Age 17
Nurturing Hearts has changed my attitude completely. I’ve been through so much in my life. If it wasn’t for this program, I don’t know if some of my situations I went through would have came out so smooth and calm. One situation I was in occurred last year. My mother’s fiancé had just got out of jail, no problem with that, I was happy. She started taking money my father gives me for support and started giving it to him and used it for bills and other expenses. I started going without things. Sure I wanted things everyone else wanted, but what 15 or 16-year-old girl wouldn’t? I put myself aside because they said they needed it. I went without so many things to make them happy, so that I wouldn’t seem like I was being selfish.
Alyissa | Age 16
I’m here to let everyone know how excited I am to be with the Nurturing hearts group, how proud I am of myself, and how much I’ve changed since Ms. Shawnta’ walked into my life. Before I was introduced to this group, I didn’t think I was good enough to hold my head up and be proud of whom I was and the family I came from. I didn’t think that people would accept me because I wasn’t as pretty as the other girls around me and I didn’t believe in myself. I didn’t think I would be able to make it through the rest of my school years. Things used to be so hard on me, I felt as if I couldn’t take it anymore! Just in time, Nurturing Hearts took time out to help me move on, get my head on straight and showed me a way to being a better person. They gave me hope that I could make it and that I am just as good as everyone else.
Aysha | Age 15
This program to me is a learning experience, because if I had changed, I would still be that insecure person that put myself down, and didn’t care what people said. I look in the mirror every day and I tell myself that I am beautiful. I am a beautiful person inside and out. Graduated Highschool GPA 3.0 Attends College in Atlanta
Aleaya Spicer | 30, June 2011
Ms.Shawnta Pulliam
My Name Is Aleaya Spicer and, I am a Former Student of the Nurturing Hearts Program, I became involved with Nurturing Hearts when I was in a Residential Treatment Facility in Erie, pa at age 15 in 2006. I am from Philadelphia, and I was put into placement for making the wrong choices when I was young such as; not going to school, and Behavioral Problems.
Dominique Kafando struggled to stay in school just 12 months ago. The Central Career and Technical School student had D's and F's on her report card, and had been assigned to Central's alternative-education school. "I was missing a lot of classes," said Kafando, 18. "I didn't care much about school." A teacher referred Kafando to Nurturing Hearts, a local nonprofit organization that provides leadership and life skills for teenage girls.
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We empower young women to have productive futures through holistic, gender specific programs, educations and experiences that are unique to young women.Spiritual Strength
Bible teachings will help each young woman recognize their individual beauty and unique gifts. We focus on God’s love.Positive Self- Esteem
Nuturing Hearts works to create a positive self-esteem in girls, helping them to recognize and celebrate their Inner and Outer Beauty.Motivation & Role Models
Through the use of motivational speaking and role models, Nuturing Hearts works to educate young girls on how to overcome life's obstacles.Who Are We
Nurturing Hearts is a non-profit organization that provides supportive leadership, motivation and life skills, which furnish and prepare girls 10-18 for a bright and positive future.