how are you? you haven t aged a day. so good to see you. so good to see you. i m surprised you remembered me. are you kidding? you leave a mark. you want to go in? i d love to. diane, diane, diane, diane, diane, tell me again why did you first open your doors? i realized that they were failing in school and needed help, the gangs were trying to recruit the boys and stuff. and i m like, what am i going to do? what do you do? what do i do? but i sold the tv and bought some computers and started helping with homework. it s about a program like tutoring and mentoring, but it s not about a program. i want to know these kids. have there been moments when you thought, that s it, i can t? every day.
and kate recently reconnected with her to recount the decade of success, joy, and some heartbreak. reporter: when i first met diane, the supreme court was about to hear a case, a landmark case having to do with chicago s handgun ban. if you would stay here two days, you d realize our young people are looking backwards because of drive-byes. reporter: when diane laticer opened up her own home to start the non-profit kids off the block she was fighting to stem the tide of gang activity in her neighborhood. and i came here to chicago to talk to some of the people who were most affected by gun violence. and i know how much my life has changed in the almost ten years since we last met. i m interested to see what s changed for diane. oh, there she is. how are you? i mean, you haven t aged a day. it is so good to see you. it s so good to see you.
i can see how another kid that age could so easily think, i got no future. that s what they think. no hope. can you blame them? returning to the memorial diane started, it does feel impossible to blame them. each brick represents a young life lost to gun violence. how many are in there now? 201. so there were 201 when i came. almost 800 now. almost. 7-something. i never imagined it would be this big. i know that s so naive to think. i didn t either. that makes me sad. i m sorry. diane isn t alone in her fight to save this community. i m from roseland. i have went to get my bachelor s degree. i have went on to get my master s degree. and i am working right inside the community that i come from. what has diane s influence been on your life, do you think? she has impacted my life tremendously.
she has been a person to go to, a mentor, the most supportive person you could ever be around and be with. you re in a doctoral program right now? yes. how long have you been volunteering with diane? it will be nine years since september. eleven years. i started in 2008. what are you teaching them? making up songs about long division, doing crazy dances. anything to get them involved, relate in science to everything. and soon they ll have a lot more room to help a lot more kids. first it was a liquor store and then it was a restaurant. this is going to be the computer lab. diane is now turning this empty building next door to her home into a technology and entrepreneurial center. i m hoping it s open by school when school starts in september. this is the future. this is the future. this is it.
almost ten years ago, kate bolduan melt a women there who decided to take a few kids under her wing. since then, she s given guidance and direction to thousands of children. and kate reconnected with her to recount the decade of success, joy and some heartbreak. when i first met diane, the supreme court was about to hear a landmark case having to do with chicago s handgun ban. if you would stay here two days, you realize our young people are looking backwards at every car because there are drive-bys. when diane latiker opened up her own home to start the non-profit, kids off the block, she was fighting to stem the tide of gang activity in her neighborhood. and i came here to chicago to talk to some of the people who are most affected by gun violence. i know how much my life has changed in the almost ten years since we last met. i m interested to see what s changed for diane. oh, there she is.