Children In Poverty: Darla’s Story
A few years ago, I became involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters. My little sister was a young Russian girl named Darla (not her real name). Her grandmother rescued Darla and her sister from horrendous conditions in a Russian orphanage where their parents placed them after her father was sentenced to prison and their mother could not control her addictive behavior.
The Grandmother and granddaughters immigrated to the Golden State, but they live in poverty in one of California’s richest cities. They live in a small, rent-controlled apartment with two bedrooms.