college at UW-L, graduated and decided to go back to Swazi for a year. I wanted to go back to where the other half of my heart was," said Martin.

Martin went to teach but also to do whatever she could to help Tanele.

"When I got back, I found out she had run away from home and ran into the streets as a prostitute. At the end of nine months, I found out that she was pregnant. She did end up leaving prostitution but she lived with the father of her now child but he was abusive and the problem there was even though I tried to help her her situation was I didn't have a home to offer her," said Martin.

It was in that moment, when Martin realizedher inability to save Tanele and so many like her, that a dream began to form.

"That's what started the idea behind Hosea's Heart and building a home for these girls. So Hosea's Heart is created to build a home of hope," said Martin.

The hope for life home is an old building that was given to Martin's non-profit organization Hosea's Heart and as it's renovated from the inside out one tile and paint stroke at a time, it will become a place where young women also find their chance for transformation.

As the renovation began Martin focused on a new challenge, stepping into her own American classroom for the first time at La Crescent High School and it didn't take long for her students to start hearing stories from the