[Bolduan:] All this week we've been sharing the extraordinary stories of people who are making a very big difference. It's called "CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE". Joining me now is my former TV partner, John Berman, a man I admire beyond measure, even though I dumped him.
[John Berman, Cnn Correspondent:] Everything you said there's true. You admire me and you dump me, and I wrote that. All three things
[Berman:] All three things are true.
[Bolduan:] It's all true. It's all true.
[Berman:] Let's talk about "CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE," shall we?
[Bolduan:] Let's talk about it. It's actually important.
[Berman:] This year, I spent time at a charity in Boston, a place called the West End House in Boston, a place my family has been connected to for about 100 years. This is such a wonderful place. Its job is to help immigrant underserved communities. They helped those kids move forward throughout the important part of their lives. Watch.
[Carolina Schott, West End House Participant:] My name is Carolina Schott, and I'm 16 years old. I attend Bossner Academy. Today, I'm performing Mendelssohn.
[Shaw:] I go to school from 8:00 to 4:00. Then I take the train to the Boys and Girls Club. Hi, guys. When I started going to West End House, I was 10 years old. I remember taking my first singing lessons. I went from being super shy to singing in front of 300 people. Be a little bit louder. Be confident. Ready?
[Berman:] Kids like Carolina has been coming here since it was founded in 1906 in the West End, a section of Boston that doesn't even exist anymore. [on camera]: In some ways, the West End House is the story of Boston. It's been a place where the immigrants of Boston could come and get help over the decades. One hundred years ago, that was my family. My grandmother had five brothers. They were Jewish kids, grandchildren and children of immigrants, and they were among the underserved. And they came here to get off the streets. My great-uncle Alan, you can see him when he was a young teenager playing basketball. How has the makeup of the kids who use this changed?
[Andrew Musto, Board President, West End House:] Now we're supporting people from all over the world. It's a new need but in reality it's the same need.
[Berman:] The West End House offers 1600 kids and teens a home away from home. A place to learn new skills, succeed in school and create lasting friendships.
[Musto:] We have four pillars to our program, leadership and life skills, education and high school preparedness, performing and visual arts, and fitness and nutrition.
[Berman:] The kids we were playing Foursquare with, or the kids who run to get meals or play in the music room or doing the art, they all feel connected to this place. They all feel it is a part of them and they are a part of it. And that's a wonderful thing.
[Schott:] My parents are from the Dominican Republic. At home, I speak a mixture of English and Spanish.
[Olivo::] I want Carolina and Kathy, both my daughters, to have a better life here in the United States. Their language makes it very difficult.
[Schott:] I am a Latino woman. You definitely can face many challenges, but I've been lucky enough to not face so many where I feel less than.
[Musto:] I think the organization is breaking stereotypes of what an after-school program is. What we endeavor to do is have our young people shatter our stereotype of what it means to be an urban young person from a first-generation family.
[Berman:] It's a cause close to my family's heart. My sister is on the board. And this year, she convinced me to help raise money by running. [on camera]: I started training in December for the Boston Marathon, and I trained for four or five months. I hurt my knee about five weeks before the marathon, but I wasn't going to not do it. I figured, what could possibly go wrong? Which was before I saw the weather report. I was soaked before I started the race. I didn't really train in the driving, pouring rain with 20-mile-an-hour wind gusts in your face. This was the hardest thing I've ever done in my entire life. [voice-over]: But worth it to support the work of volunteers like Carl Schiff. [on camera]: How far was your drive? How long did it take to get here?
[Carl Schiff, Volunteer, West End House:] About 90 minutes. My wife and I support this.
[Berman:] Why is it so important to you to do the 90-minute drive here?
[Schiff:] I think I'd have to tell you a story and you'll understand. The story is about a kid who is poor, no money. The kid has had to trade off school for working. He had one thing going for him. And that was the West End House. A shining light. A place where he was treated with respect. I'm talking about Eddie Schiff, my dad. And maybe that's why I'm here, is to fulfill his destiny.
[Berman:] Your father needed this place?
[Schiff:] Big time.
[Schott:] How are you, Carl?
[Berman:] Tell me about Carolina. You help her in math?
[Schiff:] Math but all sorts of subjects. She would have essays. My favorite was the one about stereotyping.
[Berman:] Why?
[Schiff:] Because she taught me a lot.
[Berman:] You're supposed to be tutoring her. It sounds like she was teaching you.
[Schiff:] Isn't that what life is all about?
[Berman:] How has your relationship sort of changed since you met him?
[Schott:] At the beginning, I was kind of scared of him. As the relationship got bigger, we kind of trusted each other more.
[Berman:] People say you guys make an odd couple.
[Schott:] No! I think we're different, but we're not different.
[Berman:] We should all be lucky enough to have someone like Carl. You get the sense that she's going to lean on him forever. Look at those faces.
[Bolduan:] So good. So good. You know what, even before obviously, you didn't plan this but this is what we're talking about right now. This is a story of immigration.
[Berman:] Look, it's really the story of the West End House. My great- uncles were there when Carl's father was there. It's a place where young Jewish and Italian ruffians from this neighborhood in Boston, which doesn't exist anymore, got them off the street and got them doing productive things. That was 100 years ago. Now the faces are literally different.
[Bolduan:] Yes.
[Berman:] If you look at the faces on the wall, it goes white Jewish kid, white Jewish kid, then it changes and changes and changes, and now it's kids like Carolina, West Indian kids. The kids and faces are different, but their mission is exactly the same. Exactly the same.
[Bolduan:] And as needed as ever.
[Berman:] More needed than ever.
[Bolduan:] You played some Foursquare. How did you do?
[Berman:] They play for keeps. The kids there play for keeps. When I was going to jump in, the advisers said, you need to be careful. They know my knee is a little sore from the marathon. You need to be careful. I got to the third square, the third square, which is way further than anyone thought I could do, but then they got me out.
[Bolduan:] I don't remember the rules of Foursquare. We can talk about that.
[Berman:] Foursquare is good.
[Bolduan:] Yes.
[Berman:] As good as anybody in my age level. I really think that's a virtue.
[Bolduan:] You are an old man.
[Berman:] Yes, it's all true.
[Bolduan:] But it's great to see you.
[Berman:] It's great to be back. Thanks for letting me back after all this time.
[Bolduan:] Thank you so much. John, I love you. You can see more inspiration stories just like John's during the "CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE" one-hour special tomorrow, at 8:00 p.m. Coming up for us, uncertainty and chaos not only along the border but also in Washington after the president says Republicans are wasting their time on immigration. How does this affect the Republican Party's chances come November? Stay with us.