“Talking about drugs helped prepare me for the peer(同龄人)pressures in high school,” says Michelle, 17 who participated in the first program. “And I was able to help my little brother avoid drugs.”
Moody faces retirement in three years, when he hopes to run the foundation full-time.”I’m living a happy life and I have a responsibility to my community to give back,” Moody says. “If I teach a kid to fish today, he can teach his brother to fish tomorrow.”
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Deeply touched by the boy’s word, Moody decided to create a foundation(基金会)that introduces teenagers to the basics of fishing in camping programs. “As a policeman, I saw where there was violence, drugs were always behind it. They have a damaging impact on the kids,” says Moody.
By turning kids on to fishing, he intended to present an alternative way of life, “When you’re sitting there waiting for a bite,” he says, “you can’t help but talk to each other, and such conversations can be pretty deep.”