Kids Fighting For Kids – a new ‘Dig Where You Are’ story
In Costa Rica, a young surfer has turned his love of Jiu Jitsu into a transforming experience for kids at risk. “I always tell the kids here that nothing is impossible. The ‘impossible’ things just take longer to do,” says Leonidas (Leo) Ruaro, the twenty-nine-year-old surfer who created the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Jaco Academy (BJJJ) […]
Veronika Scott Shows Us How to Dig Where You Are
I came across the Empowerment Project entirely by accident but decided I had to share what I have learned thus far about it. Veronika Scott is a young woman in her 20s who lives in Detroit. She was given an assignment in school to design something useful. What she created was a down coat that […]