今天和大家分享一本纪实类的绘本，绘本中的主角和故事是真实存在的。在看到今天的绘本时脑海中出现了杜甫的诗句“安得广厦千万间，大庇天下寒士俱欢颜”。今天的故事就是这句诗的真实写照。

本书介绍的是美国著名社会工作者、社会学家、哲学家和改革家 - Laura Jane Addams（劳拉·简·亚当斯）建造“睦邻之家”的故事。

简·亚当斯出生于伊利诺伊州的席达威尔市，曾在美国和欧洲等地接受教育，毕业于伊利诺伊州洛克福市洛克福女子学校(今洛克福大学)。

1889年，她和爱伦‧盖兹‧史达在芝加哥共同创设了赫尔馆，美国的第一座睦邻之家。受到位于伦敦东区的汤恩比馆影响，睦邻之家提供了救助邻人的社会福利服务和成为一个社会改革的中心。在其全盛期时，赫尔馆一个礼拜有约两千人会来参观。其设施包含有：成人夜辅校、幼稚园、少年们的俱乐部、公共餐厅、美术馆、咖啡馆、体育馆、女性俱乐部、游泳池、装订作坊、音乐学系、剧团、图书馆和工作部门。

赫尔馆因此成为其他社会工作者的典范。有类似的400多家睦邻之家遍布全美。

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In 1889, a wealthy young woman named Jane Addams moved into a lovely, elegant house in Chicago, Illinois.  But instead of moving into a lovely, elegant neighborhood, she picked a house that was smack in the middle of one of the filthiest, poorest parts of town. Why would a wealthy young woman do this when she could have lived anywhere?

Jane was just six years old when she went on a trip with her father and noticed that everyone lived like her family did. She vowed that one day she would live “right in the midst of horrid little houses” and find a way to fix the world.

Jane was a strong soul from the start. And she was brave. When she and her stepbrother George were young, they would sneak away at night to explore in nearby caves.

Once, Jane lowered George over a cliff on a rope to spy on an owl in its nest. Jane was smart. She read and read from her father’s book collection, which doubled as the town library.

Most girls did not go to college then, but Jane’s father believed women should be educated. She went to Rockford Females Seminary and graduated at the top of her class. But when school was over, she wasn’t sure what to do with her life.

That same summer, her father died. Jane was lost. About two years later, she and her friends traveled to Europe. About two years later, she and her friends traveled to Europe. They went to the theater, the opera, and many beautiful.

But then Jane saw something in London she couldn’t forget: people in ragged clothes with outstretched hands, begging a cart vendor to buy his leftover rotten fruits and vegetables that hadn’t sold at market. The spoiled food was all they could afford.

What could she do to help? Long after her trip was over, the question stuck in her mind. She remembered how she felt when she was six. Jane teaveled back to London to learn about a place she had heard was helping the poor in a brand-new way.

At Toynbee Hall, the idea was to have rich and poor people live together in the same community and learn from each other. Instead of simple serving soup, for example, people could take cooking classes. Other skills were taught as well.

Toynbee Hall was the first settlement house. It was called a settlement house because the well-off people who worked there during the day didn’t go back to their own homes at night. Instead, they “settled” in and lived at Toynbee hall.

Jane now knew what to do.  She told her friends Ellen Gates Starr about her plan to build a settlement house in Chicago. It was “as if a racehorse had burst out of the gate, free at last to pour every ounce of energy into running.”

There was a glittery side to Chicago, with its mansions, fancy shops, and sparkling lakefront. But there was a gritty side, too. One million people lived in Chicago in 1889. Most were immigrants – people who came from other countries. They came for a better life, but they didn’t speak English.

That made it hard to find jobs. Many needed help. Jane found the perfect house. It had big rooms with high ceilings and marble fireplace. And it was in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city. Garbage lay rotting in the streets, piled high.

Large families were crammed into tiny, ramshackle houses with no running water. The smell from back-lot outhouses hung in the air. Rough boys ran the streets, stirring up trouble because they had nothing to do. The house had belonged to Charles J. Hull, and he had left it to a wealthy cousin named Helen Culver.

At first, Jane paid rent, but after she told Helen what she had in mind, Helen gave her the house for free. In thanks, Jane named it Hull House. Jane moved in on September 18, 1889. The very first night, she was so busy and excited that she forgot to lock a side door before to sleep.

But no one broke in. She decided to leave Hull House unlocked from then on so people would know they could come in at any time. People who didn’t have enough to eat or had no shoes on their feet, or had just lost a job began to find their way to Hull House. Of course, it wasn’t always peaceful.

Once, a couple of boys threw rocks at the house and broke a window. Instead of getting upset, Jane took it as a sign to give the neighborhood kids something to do. She had her own way of looking at things. Another time, Jane discovered a man in the house looking for something to steal. He tried to jump out a window to escape, but she showed him the door so he wouldn’t get hurt.

When he broke in a second time, she asked him why. He said he was out of work and had no money. Jane told him to report back the next morning. When he did, she gave him a job. Jane spent her own money running Hull House, and asked other well-off people to donate, too. She did not want to be paid for working there.

Even when people gave her gifts, she gave them away. Her friends teased Jane about this. One friend gave her new underwear with her initials on them just so Jane couldn’t pass them on. But she did! Any problem Jane discovered, she tackled.

No running water in houses meant no-easy way to bathe. This led so sickness. So Jane put in a public bath. People flocked to it, which helped her convince city officials, they needed to build more public baths.

No safe place for children to play? Jane talked a wealthy man into giving her the lot he owned near Hull House. Workmen tore down the shabby buildings and turned the lot into a playground. It was the first one in Chicago!

Little kind home alone because their parents had to work fourteen house a day? Jane stated a morning kindergarten and after-school clubs. She also set up afternoon classes for old kids who had to go to work during the school day.

Jane did not do all this alone. Ellen Gated Starr was her partner from the start. Many other smart, generous people moved into Hull House and helped. They taught literature, art, English, math, science, and …… Soon there was not just one building, but two. Then three, and four, and more.

By 1907, Hull House had grown into thirteen buildings, including a gymnasium, coffee house, theatre, music school, community kitchen, and an art gallery.

By the early 1920s, more than nine thousand people a week visited Hull House. The house that Jane built brought all kinds of people together and helped those in need. It changed a bad neighborhood into a great and strong community. Hull House transformed the lives of all who stepped inside.

Today, every community center in America, in large part, has Jane Addams to thank. With all that she did, both inside and outside the house that Jane built, her childhood wish to help fix the world came true.  

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