What Does Our Symbol Mean?

HOPE believes that our underachieving and underrepresented children and youth must be nurtured. Inspired by the MIELIE symbol, and created by myself, our symbol believes that anything that is worthwhile and that is growing needs to be nurtured. This is really apparent with things like crops or flowers but much less apparent with things like strategies, ideals, aspirations, and dreams, which also grow as well as develop. Lots of facets of culture, such as social conscience for instance, are slow to develop and demand to be nurtured. This kind of nurturing requires patience, care, attention and understanding. Certain aspects of life, like the children we focus our attention on, require a significant amount of sustained nurturing if they are to stay and become a vital part of, and contributor to our community and the world at large. The HOPE symbol represents this particular requirement for nurturing.

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