![\"-](\"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/daf2bbcc481f0cf083f5d1524716cf65.jpg\" "\\"Brittnie,")
\nMost teenagers probably wouldn\u2019t look back fondly on a year spent in a homeless shelter, but Brittnie Pemberton sees the time as a good year, a year with strong sense of family, of learning, and of hope, and her story should inspire others.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While at a living center for homeless women and their children in San Diego, Brittnie met photojournalist Linda Solomon, who had created the national \u201cPictures of Hope\u201d project a year earlier to increase awareness of homeless youths. Solomon gives disposable cameras to children in the program, and the pictures they take of their life\u2019s wishes are featured on greeting cards sold to raise money for charities helping the homeless.\u00a0 \u201cThe most important for me as a photojournalist is to show children that their dreams matter,\u201d Solomon said. \u201cWe show the children their dreams are respected and their dreams can come true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n