Amid the chaos that characterized the last decades of the Robert Taylor Homes in Bronzeville, an ambitious early education program, known as Educare, helped children who lived there flourish. A new documentary “Tomorrow’s Hope” tells that story.
“The housing authority decided that the public housing Robert Taylor Homes would be torn down,” Kennel said. “And what happened was it ignited — besides being a disruption to the children and families and the services — it ignited as they tore down the buildings a crime and drug war. Nobody seemed to care about what was happening to this community in which all of the resources that one would naturally expect in a community to be available were being shut down.
The film reunites three present-day high school seniors who started out in the Educare preschool’s first-ever class, as well as gets the inside scoop from Kennel and others who helped establish Educare. “I think when you look at ‘Tomorrow’s Hope,’ you’ll see the resilience and the capacity of children and families in such dire situations to overcome, through participating in educational experience with a staff of teachers and others that said to them, ‘You matter. I don’t care what’s going on in this community, you matter and we’re going to work with you. We’re not going to give up on you,’” Kennel said.
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