MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership |Usher discussed Mentoring

Usher discussed Mentoring

Posted by MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership May 16, 2008

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I’ve always been very giving; I’ve always had a willingness to teach others. What am I able to do with all the experiences of my past other than to share them and they become gems or direction for those in need. So when I decided to start the New Look Foundation, it was exactly the mentoring program that my life would have represented by way of all of the individuals who had taught me – to teach kids, to offer kids a new alternative, to teach them about the business side of the sports and entertainment industries…The fact that there are very successful individuals that come from the inner city or come from broken homes or are considered at-risk youth…they need direction. So, this mentoring program, or this Foundation would give them that opportunity, for someone to believe in them, someone to encourage them to think outside of the box and know that there is an alternative direction. True indeed, everybody may not be a basketball player or a football player, but there are so many other alternatives and all that believe in the New Look, believe in me, is the model that they walk away from when they leave my camp and when they leave my direction.