Ryann

My name is Ryann and I am an eighth grader at LREI: Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School . My social justice project topic is children in poverty and the health issues they my acquire or have. I am interested in this topic because I both want to make a change in NYC's children in poverty and want to first hand volunteer and help.

Children In Poverty: Share

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After the feel, image, and do stage my group felt that we were strongly educated on our topic and thought that we could make a change. To educate people on our topic we held a teach-in and taught the fifth, sixth and seventh graders at our school about our topic. To do this we deigned…

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Back to LSA Family Health Services

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After our first experience at LSA we thought it would be a good place to go back to. At LSA this time we helped restock the pantry and helped clients. These clients have families starting at one person and going to eight or above. Unlike most food pantries LSA give people a amount of points…

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Mapping East Harlem’s Health

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At the beginning of this fieldwork we thought that Mapping East Harlem’s Health was not going to be relevant to our project. However, later we discovered valuable information and we were able to talk to different experts on our topic. At this fieldwork we began by sitting in on a meeting that explained what they had done.…

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Survey at Washington Square Park

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For our fith field work we went to Washington Square Park to ask people questions about our topic to understand their perspective. Going in to this fieldwork we had to come up with questions that were not easily answered in a single word. That was to insure that peole didn’t just say one word answers…

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Santa’s Helpers at St. Brigids

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  On Saturday the 19th both my group and the education group went to St. Brigids to volunteer. Since, I was the first person to get their they asked me to help serve food as they were about to start and didn’t have enough hands. After serving food I helped kids do arts and crafts…

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LSA Family Health Services

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For my group’s second field work we went to LSA. We volunteered at their food pantry and helped at least ten families get the appropriate amount of food. Unlike most food pantries were food is distributed in bags and clients don’t have a choice of what they are getting, LSA gives people a choice and makes…

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Poor Kids PBS Video

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For my group’s first field work we watched a documentary on poor kids in the United States. As this being our first field work it was more for us to gain a better sense of our topic without just jumping into it. I personally felt this was important because poverty is the living condition/state someone…

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