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18juliam

Hello, my name is Julia Meltzer. I am an eigth grader at LREI, a school in Greenwhich Village, New York. Our grade's project for the year is a social justice project. My group of five is focusing on poverty, specifically on homelessness in New York. Aside from this, I enjoy music theory, playing piano, and oboe.

Poverty Has No Face

McSilver Institute Visit

Although I wasn’t able to attend the meeting that my social justice group had with Mary McKay from the McSilver Institute, I was prese [...]
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Food Van 1/20/14

On Monday night, my social justice group was given the opportunity to go on a food van that delivered dinner to the homeless or poor through [...]
Poverty Has No Face

Sign this Petition! See link for details.

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Interview with Alice Steigerwald, 11/6/13

  The poverty group went on a fieldwork yesterday. We visited the Covenant House which is a transitional housing unit for youth in NYC. [...]
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Meeting with Stacey Cedeno 12/4/13

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Volunteer Work with Homes for the Homeless 11/22/13

My social justice group visited Homes for the Homeless, a homeless shelter that is centered around families with children. We met with Marga [...]
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Interview with Peter Brest

Last Thursday, Peter Brest, the Chief Operating Officer of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty came to our school to talk with us. We [...]
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Volunteer at St. John’s Food Pantry, 11/20/13

Yesterday our group accompanied a teacher and her six sixth graders to St. John’s food pantry. We stayed there from about 12:30 until [...]
Poverty Has No Face

UN Conference, October 17

Both poverty groups went to a Poverty Eradication Conference at the United Nations. We heard from many speakers from all over the world. The [...]
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Interview with Alice Steigerwald, 11/6/13

The poverty group went on a fieldwork yesterday. We visited the Covenant House which is a transitional housing unit for youth in NYC. We met [...]

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