Here is a photo of the rest of my group. And behind them was the board we drew on and then later on put a quote in the middle. The quote says, “Life is tough, but so are you” – Kid President Monday 27, 2014 we went on a fieldwork to POTS (Part Of The…
Today we started the day off by having our normal classes until 9:00 am. When it was time to go to the Apostles Church we got our stuff and headed to the train. We took the A, I think to 23rd street and then walked to 25th and 9th ave. When we found the building…
Today was the day we took a tour of the Coalition for the Homeless and to help sort toys. It started at 12:55pm. when we left the building to head to the A train. When we got through the turnstiles we went left because we wanted to go downtown to Houston street. So when the…
Before we left for Thanksgiving weekend I contacted a lady named Lauren Mucciolo who came in last year to speak to the class about the movie she had recently filmed. Last year in 2012 Lauren produced a movie called “Poor Kids” that was from the perspective of 3 families. So what we wanted…
For our second fieldwork we arranged a conference call with a lady named Yang Jiang to talk to us about what she does for the National Center for Children in Poverty. Yang Jiang works at Columbia University, but also works as someone who analysis the information the NCCP receives. It really all started when we…
For our second field work we went to St. John’s Food Pantry. We got their as a group and met up with the leader of the program Joe Spicket. Joe Spicket is a man who has been running this food pantry for a long time and is someone who buys all the food for…
Both of the poverty groups got the chance to go to their first field work together. For our first field work we went to the United Nations to participate and hear a big conference about ways to help eradicate poverty in our country. While we were there we got to listen to many people…
