For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.
There's very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.
I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.
I'm very protective of all the vulnerable young kids that go on shoots. I can empathize. I've been there.
I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.
I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.
There are so many people around young kids nowadays it can make it very tough and difficult - people who think they are going to care for those kids but do the opposite.
Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.
Try and get the kid protected against the stupidity of adults.
