DC/STRIVE06: "Strive", a successful 3 week intensive program

DC/STRIVE06: "Strive", a successful 3 week intensive program in DC to help people overcome past struggles and issues and gain employment. **Portia Harrington holds a mirror for Christo Jones as they fix their makeup on graduation day. (Portia's stage name is "Innocence". A 20 yr old exotic dancer who had previously studied cosmetology. She has been dancing 3 years. Heard about strive from sister - didn't get job she applied for and wanted to learn how to improve. Tongue ring, piercings over eye, majenta hair was how she began at Strive. "We are your little kids" (said to Mr.B) Praise poem: "I'm Portia L. Harrison. The daughter of Karen Harrison and Alfred Britt. The granddaughter of Fredrick and Dorothy Harrison. I'm as light as the morning sun. I'm as hard as the hail fallen from the sky. People don't believe that I can be sweet understanding and patiend but I show them sothey can show me. I like to watch and learn so when they see they see a flower and then I go give my seeds so they can be a flower. So please keep nourishing your seed because soon it will see light." Original Filename: Strive14.jpg (Photo by Carol Guzy/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)