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18chiarah

My name is Chiara and I am in the 8th grade at LREI. My social justice topic is poverty and homelessness in NYC and our goal is to redefine the misconception and predisposition of what poverty is and what it looks like. I am passionate about the issue of poverty because is it an alaive and growing issue in the United States and in the world.

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Interview with Alice Steigerwald at Covenant house 11.6.13

Our social justice poverty group visited the Covenant House and interviewed Alice Steigerwald, the volunteer coordinator and talked to her [...]
Poverty Has No Face

Volunteered at Night Food Van at Coalition for the Homeless

On January 20th my social justice group Volunteered with a night food van at Coalition for the Homeless. We arrived at 6:30 and handed out f [...]
Poverty Has No Face

Volunteered with children from Homes for the Homeless

On November 22 our group visited homes for the homeless, a shelter for families. We got to do arts and crafts with the little kids and made [...]
Poverty Has No Face

12.4.13-Interview with Stacy Cedeno at the Department of Homeless Services

On Wednesday December 4th, Our social justice group met with Stacy Cedeno who works for the DHS (Department of Homeless Services), and we go [...]
Poverty Has No Face

Visited St. John’s Food Pantry and Spoke with Sister Mary, 11.20.13

This Wednesday my social justice group joined Margaret’s 6th grade advisory to go to St. John’s food pantry to help out and to s [...]
Poverty Has No Face

Interview with Mary McKay and Ammu Kowolik, 11/13/13

Last Friday the 15th of November our social justice group went to the McSilver Institute for poverty policy and research, and interviewed Ma [...]
Poverty Has No Face

United Nations Conference on the Eradication of Poverty with Judith Nsababera 10/17/13

We had the wonderful privilege to watch a conference on the eradication of poverty at the United Nations and listened to so many informative [...]

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