\u201cEra muy t\u00edmido y no muy extrovertido\u201d, record\u00f3 Nathan, de 15 a\u00f1os. Cuando se uni\u00f3 al Boys & Girls Club a los 6 a\u00f1os, no interactuaba mucho con nadie. Pasaba sus d\u00edas dibujando tranquilamente en la sala de arte. Pero con el tiempo, Nathan comenz\u00f3 a abrirse a otros miembros del Club. Lleg\u00f3 a conocer al personal y descubri\u00f3 lo solidarios y afectuosos que eran todos. Empez\u00f3 a expresarse y probar nuevas actividades en el Club y antes de darse cuenta, estaba enganchado.<\/p>\n
\u201cEn el Boys & Girls Club, sal\u00ed de mi caparaz\u00f3n\u201d, explic\u00f3. \u201cEl Club me ha dado mucha confianza. Ahora, vengo aqu\u00ed porque quiero estar aqu\u00ed. Me gusta aqu\u00ed."<\/p>\n
A trav\u00e9s de excursiones y oportunidades de artes culturales que brind\u00f3 el Club, Nathan descubri\u00f3 que sus intereses creativos iban m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de dibujar en la sala de arte. Comenz\u00f3 aprendiendo sobre fotograf\u00eda y edici\u00f3n de video. Estas oportunidades lo ayudaron a convertirse en un gran comunicador que usa el arte para encontrar nuevas formas de expresarse.<\/p>\n
Con la confianza y las habilidades de comunicaci\u00f3n reci\u00e9n descubiertas de Nathan, se convirti\u00f3 en presidente del Keystone Club, un programa de liderazgo para adolescentes en el Club, para poder asegurarse de que el Club siguiera siendo un lugar inclusivo y de apoyo para todos los que entraron.<\/p>\n
\u201cTodo el mundo deber\u00eda querer venir al Club\u201d. explic\u00f3 Nat\u00e1n. \u201cHay m\u00e1s oportunidades de las que encuentras en la escuela o en casa. Es tan acogedor. Puedes acercarte a cualquiera aqu\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Trabaj\u00f3 con otros miembros de Keystone para planificar actividades y organizar eventos de recaudaci\u00f3n de fondos para que el Club pudiera ofrecer diferentes tipos de excursiones y oportunidades. Quer\u00eda ayudar a otros miembros del Club a descubrir sus pasiones y emerger como l\u00edderes, tal como lo hizo \u00e9l. Pronto, los miembros m\u00e1s j\u00f3venes del Club comenzaron a admirar a Nathan y sus compa\u00f1eros como modelos a seguir.<\/p>\n
En el futuro, Nathan est\u00e1 interesado en ser director de cine y llevar su vocaci\u00f3n art\u00edstica al siguiente nivel. Tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 considerando trabajar en el Club para poder ayudar a transformar vidas de la misma manera que el Club lo ayud\u00f3 a \u00e9l.<\/p>\n
\u201cTenemos que prestar atenci\u00f3n a lo que hacemos en el Club porque los ni\u00f1os nos admiran\u201d, explic\u00f3.<\/p>\n
Cualquiera que sea el sue\u00f1o que termine persiguiendo, los Boys & Girls Clubs no estar\u00e1n m\u00e1s orgullosos de \u00e9l que nosotros en este momento.<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI was very shy and not very outgoing,\u201d 15-year-old Nathan recalled. When he joined the Boys & Girls Club at age 6, he didn\u2019t interact much with anyone. He spent his days quietly drawing in the art room. But over time, Nathan started to open up to other Club members. He got to know the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kid-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18888"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18931,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18888\/revisions\/18931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}