From Poverty to Possibility: Jonathan's Story Part 3

The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast

CandyRock

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Talk Radio

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if a school uniform stood between you and an education? For Jonathan, this was his reality. Growing up in deep poverty, he faced unimaginable hardships, from hunger to homelessness. This week, in part 3 of his journey, Jonathan shares how something as simple as a borrowed uniform determined whether he could go to school. His story is a powerful reminder that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty—but for many, it's out of reach without help. It’s true. We’re better together. And this season, I’m asking our podcast community to do something TOGETHER to make a difference in the world. Want to be part of the change? Visit Candace.com and click on “Compassion” to see how you can help change the life of someone like Jonathan. Come back next week for the next chapter in his story. To see how we can make a difference together, go to https://ccbpodcast.com/compassion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Life is like a roller coaster, but it's so much better when we go through it together.
0:07.6	It's true. We are better together. And this season, I'm asking our podcast community to do something together to make a difference in the world.
0:16.3	There are hard things going on around us. Hurricanes, floods, fires, people hurting, and as followers of Jesus,
0:25.1	we show up in the hard stuff and we build relationships with people who need us. We give.
0:31.8	Each week, I'm bringing you a short piece of an interview with a special guest and each week
0:37.4	you'll hear more about
0:38.8	what we can do together. These are short episodes, less than 10 minutes, so come join us.
0:51.5	My mother, she was working in a factory, but she was making maybe less than a dollar a day.
0:59.0	So we were barely paying a very small shack in this ghetto and I was very sick dealing with asthma because of the humidity of the small chat where we were.
1:13.6	And in this context, I remember, let me think, spend days without eating because we didn't
1:21.6	have any money.
1:23.6	We barely could pay the small chat where we were. My mother decided I need a place.
1:29.7	I cannot have this baby in the street.
1:33.8	And that journey of working in the streets, being aware of the dangerous reality in my
1:41.1	neighborhood as an early age, maybe five.
1:45.0	Since I was five, I was in the streets selling empanadas to help my mom.
1:52.0	And I didn't understand what we were going through.
1:56.0	In fact, I don't have any bad memory on those early stages in my life.
2:02.3	Besides the dentist setting,
2:04.9	life for me as a child was like any child will be normal life.
2:11.6	Just playing around.
2:13.5	So your mom made it as great as she could, and you didn't know the difference of anything.
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