{"id":17064,"date":"2026-03-10T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/sharing-her-dream-with-homeless-teens\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:02:55","slug":"sharing-her-dream-with-homeless-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/people-helping-people\/americas-angels\/sharing-her-dream-with-homeless-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Her Dream with Homeless Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At six o\u2019 clock sharp the curtain rises. Two hundred audience members, including the mayor of Reno, Nevada, look to the stage. Dozens of talented, elaborately costumed actors break out into the first number of <em>The Lion King. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>But this is not your typical production. The gifted cast is made up of homeless children living at the Volunteers of America family shelter in Reno. Children who\u2019ve been given a chance to escape their problems and live their dreams onstage, thanks to volunteer acting coach Nasya Mancini.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see so much of myself in these kids,\u201d says Nasya. \u201cI tell them their current circumstance doesn\u2019t have to be their destiny. If they are determined they can do anything they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/guidepostssub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>ENJOYING THIS STORY? SUBSCRIBE TO GUIDEPOSTS MAGAZINE!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Determination is something Nasya knows all about. She and a twin sister were born prematurely. Her sister died shortly after birth, and Nasya\u2014who weighed one pound, four ounces\u2014was given little chance of survival. But Nasya kept fighting.<\/p>\n<p>She had open-heart surgery at two weeks old. Doctors predicted she\u2019d be in the hospital for five months. She came home in nine weeks. Her very name (pronounced \u201cNah- SY-ah\u201d) means \u201cmiracle\u201d in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>Nasya was small, but quickly proved that her talents were as big as her will to survive. She started dancing at two. By six she\u2019d been spotted by an acting coach, who encouraged her parents to enroll her in drama classes. \u201cThere was something about being onstage,\u201d Nasya says. \u201cIt made my spirit come alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her enthusiasm didn\u2019t sit well with some of her schoolmates. In first grade, Nasya was in the hallway telling friends about her classes. \u201cI\u2019m going to be an actor. One day I\u2019m going to be a star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some sixth graders overheard. \u201cYou? You\u2019re a shrimp. You\u2019re not even pretty. No one will ever know who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nasya came home in tears. \u201cMom hugged me and said, \u2018Don\u2019t listen to them! You can be whatever you want to be. Stand up for yourself.\u2019 But I couldn\u2019t. What if they were right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nasya kept being bullied for her passion for acting. \u201cI tried to ignore it,\u201d she says. \u201cBecause every time I got up onstage and delivered a performance, it gave me a boost of confidence and encouragement. Like I was doing what I was meant to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One day, in fifth grade, Nasya was in music class, playing her recorder. \u201cOne of the popular girls told me, \u2018I can play better than you. And if you\u2019re not better than me, then how can you be an actor? Give. It. Up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time Nasya kept her cool. She replied, \u201cI love to act. I\u2019m going to make it. And I don\u2019t really care what you or anyone else thinks of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When her mother asked if she\u2019d been bullied that day, Nasya said, \u201cYes, but today was the day I stood up for myself.\u201d By high school, Nasya was winning awards in theater competitions. As a sophomore, she entered the Miss Northern Counties Outstanding Teen pageant and needed to choose a community-service platform.<\/p>\n<p>Her acting coach mentioned that she taught drama to children at the Volunteers of America shelter&#8230;and that there were more than 300 people living there, all from the Reno area.<\/p>\n<p>Nasya was stunned. \u201cI was so blessed that I didn\u2019t realize how blessed I was!\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m healthy, have wonderful parents, a great home. I couldn\u2019t believe how many homeless children there were right in my own backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nasya knew she\u2019d found her cause: She would work with her acting coach to teach drama to the children at the shelter. \u201cThe first day, we played icebreaker games to get to know each other. Then we practiced improvised dialogue. My goal was to take their minds off their problems. Some of the kids were really talented and funny\u2014I was blown away!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the class, a little girl asked where she was going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to go home now,\u201d Nasya said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I go with you? People tease me because I don\u2019t have a place to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearing that broke Nasya\u2019s heart, reminding her of the bullying she\u2019d endured growing up. She gave the little girl a hug and said, \u201cYou tell them you might not have a place to live but you have a home here with me. And you can do whatever you want in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nasya wanted the kids at the shelter to discover the confidence and empowerment that acting could give. The best way to do that, she decided, was to put on a big play. It would be a combination of the kids\u2019 favorite Disney movies: <em>The Lion King, The Little Mermaid <\/em>and <em>Aladdin. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>She contacted a drama company that she\u2019d performed for, TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada, and it offered to help with costumes, tickets and programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got the word out to everyone I could, but I still couldn\u2019t believe it when I heard the mayor was coming,\u201d she says. The production was a hit. The kids took several curtain calls. Donations to the shelter rolled in.<\/p>\n<p>Long after Nasya won the title of Miss Northern Counties Outstanding Teen, she has stayed committed to the kids at the Volunteers of America shelter. For the last three years she\u2019s been teaching weekly drama classes there. She\u2019s helped the kids put on big productions like <em>Peter Pan <\/em>and <em>Wishes, a Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At each class she reminds the kids of something she knows with every part of her spirit to be true: \u201cBelieve in yourself. The world is your stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s Angels <em>tells stories of how Volunteers of America helps our nation\u2019s most vulnerable. Learn more at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voa.org\/guideposts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>voa.org\/guideposts<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you enjoy this story? Subscribe to <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/guidepostssub\"><strong>Guideposts<\/strong><\/a> <em>magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At six o\u2019 clock sharp the curtain rises. Two hundred audience members, including the mayor of Reno, Nevada, look to the stage. 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