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Action Against Poverty

We started this project on the thought that we could help solve the poverty problem. By basing our thesis on the work of solidarity, we decided that the best way to solve the problem was to work with the problem. We contacted a local agency that deals with homeless people and people that our in a true financial struggle. The St. Patrick’s Center, located off Tucker BLVD, allowed us to not only find more information about poverty issues, but allowed us to receive first hand research. In working with these people, we came upon that no matter how much effort we put into our project, the problem will not be solved by two kids in their second to last year in high. In spite of that problem, we did realize that the more people we get to work with poverty issues, the better and sooner the problem will be solved.


There is no written solution for poverty. There are only preventions and ways to help people get out of the state in which they have fallen. It is much harder to get people out of poverty as opposed to keeping them out. It is harder for a baseball player to get out of a hitting slump, than it is to keep him from getting into a slump from the beginning of the season. Once people fallen into drugs and alcohol, they turn to there friends and family for money and help. If they screw up enough times than they will stop help them. Some people recognize that they have a problem and they take the steps to get help. Others will not get any help until they hit rock bottom and have nowhere else to turn. In either type of scenario they have to want help. I talked to the director of community awareness at the St. Patrick Center, and he said his job is not what it sounds like. You would think his job is to inform the public that the center in there and inform those who need help that the center is a place where they can get help. He told me that people are not out there looking around for a place to get help, but to be a part of the center they have to want help. If you don’t want help than the center doesn’t want you there and you probably don’t want to be there. The center makes a commitment to every individual who checks in. As long as they are making a commitment to change there life and work for that change as hard as the center does. The goal is self-sufficiency. The center works to give everyone dependence upon themselves. They don’t put them through programs so they can enter back into society and ruin their life again.


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