Category Archives: Poverty
Visit at Part Of The Solution (POTS) on 1/6/14
On Monday, January 6th, our group was able to go to a soup kitchen located in the Bronx called Part Of The Solution or POTS. We were set to [...]
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 [...]
INTERVIEW WITH PETER PUTKA
My group and I got the opportunity to meet with filmmaker Peter Putka. He is currently working on an “interactive movie” which [...]
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 [...]
Speaking in Front of City Hall
Our social justice group got the amazing opportunity to speak outside city hall in front of reporters for major news networks and very impor [...]
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 [...]
Private: Interview with Richard Aborn
On December 10, 2013, our Social Justice group went to the Citizens Crime Commission office to meet with Richard Aborn, President of the Com [...]
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 [...]
Our Trip to Poughkeepsie
On November 16th my group, which is focusing on work against gun violence, drove to Poughkeepsie to meet with Donna Dees and Mothers Against [...]
St. Johns Food Pantry
Our group went to St. John’s Food Pantry on Tuesday to help the pantry be ready for the people to come the next day. Wednesday’s [...]
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 Donna Dees, Creator of Million Moms’ March
LREI Gun violence group meeting activist Donna Dees Our social justice group got the chance to meet with creator of The Million Moms March D [...]
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 [...]
Interview with Mr. Bill Torres from the Ali Forney Center
On November 14, 2013 Liv Reis, Lulu Grant, Zoe Carter and Sam Kielian interviewed Bill Torres of the Ali Forney Center, working to help memb [...]
Conference at the U.N.
This fieldwork visit was to a conference in the U.N. This conference was about poverty, and that it still exists in the world. The goal of t [...]
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 [...]
Poverty Has No Face
Our social justice group took interest in poverty because of the sympathy we feel for the homeless men and women we see every day on the str [...]
Sock Out Homelessness
We are a group of four eighth graders who attend LREI: Little Red School House and Elizabeth Irwin High School. Our social justice group is [...]
An Interview with Jessica Wolff
On March 8th, our group spoke to one of the members at Campaign for Educational Equity named Jessica Wolff. The Campaign for Educational Equ [...]
Volunteering at Coalition for the Homeless Food Van
On March 7th, the Child Poverty had the amazing opportunity to go volunteer with the Coalition for the Homeless van program. Coalition for t [...]
An Interview with Bonnie Greaves
On March 6th, my group and I talked to a woman named Bonnie Greaves who is a volunteer at the Citizens’ Committee for Children. This o [...]
Volunteer Work at Room To Grow
On February 23, the Child Poverty Group had the opportunity to volunteer at an amazing organization called Room to Grow. Room to Grow is an [...]
Playing Squash At Street Squash!
On February 22nd, my group and I went to Street Squash an organization that tutors and teaches squash to children from 6th to 12th grade. My [...]
Producer Lauren Mucciolo Came to Speak With Us About Her Movie!
On February 11th, the Child Poverty group had guest speaker Lauren Mucciolo come speak with our grade. Lauren Mucciolo is the producer of an [...]
Steve Liss Interview
On Tuesday December 4 , my social justice group and I had a video conference with the chairman of American Poverty, Steve Liss. We discussed [...]
Showing the Class A Movie On Child Poverty Called “Poor Kids”
On December 21, my group and I completed our third fieldwork as we embarked on our social justice project (child poverty). We decided to giv [...]
Interview with Marianna Houston, founder of ITLP (International Theatre and Literacy Project)
On December 3rd my group and I interviewed Marianna Houston, founder of ITLP (International Theater and Literacy Project). She explained to [...]
Go Project Tour!
On Saturday my Poverty Social Justice Group and I embarked on a field work to LREI where we would work with the Go Project. We mainly went t [...]
Child Poverty Group goes to the ITLP Fundraiser
On Monday, November 12th my group went to a fundraiser for ITLP, the International Theatre and Literacy Project. This organization works wit [...]
Child Poverty: Break the Cycle
Hello people who are viewing our blog! We are a group of eighth graders at LREI: Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School. Th [...]
Poverty in America
We are doing our part to help end poverty for the 43 million Americans that have to suffer below the poverty line. Our group goal is to rais [...]
