Author Archives: Lola Picayo
Volunteer at Holy Apostle Soup Kitchen, 12/16/13
On Monday, December 16th, we volunteered at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm. Holy Apostle is a church that serves dinner [...]
Visit at Coalition for the Homeless 12/5/13
On Thursday the 5th, our poverty group was lucky enough to have scheduled a visit with Coalition for the Homeless. We met with Marisa Butler [...]
Lauren Mucciolo came to our class on 12/2/13
After producing the film “Poor Kids”, Lauren Mucciolo has a very interesting view on child poverty in America. She got to have t [...]
Interview with Yang Jiang on 11/14/13
Before our interview with Columbia graduate and data analyst Yang Jiang, we believed that the organization she works with, NCCP (national ce [...]
Volunteer work at St. John’s Food Pantry, with Joe Spicketts on 11/12/13
When we got to the food pantry, we started to notice that there were a lot of extra volunteers there. They were all wearing volunteer shirts [...]
United Nations Conference for the Eradication of Poverty, 10/17/13
On October 17th, both Poverty Groups were lucky enough to sit in on a conference at the United Nations for the Eradication of Poverty. This [...]
