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My peers and I are proud to inform you that we have officially created a petition to increase our online activism! With this petition, we hope that the New York Department of Homeless services will create new policies to keep homeless people safe by providing them with homes.

One signature goes a long way, thank you 🙂

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Hello Everyone!!! We are proud to say we have made a petition to help convince the New York Department or Homeless Services help revaluate their policies for the thousands of homeless people living in New York. We want to be able to help those in need of food & water, a roof over their heads and health & well-being necessities. Make sure to sign this petition so all our voices can be heard!!!

Sign here to help!

Thank you to everyone who helps contribute 🙂

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It would be so appreciated if you consider signing our petition! Help us reach our goal of 100 signatures by spreading the word. Thank you so much!

This article is presenting five ways to prevent poverty. It stresses the fact that stopping the terrible consequences of poverty is a community move and effort. It encourages that individuals work together and start doing what they can in their own position.

Government without the individuals’ effort is useless. Because, poverty will not be eliminated without the cooperation of everyone. It should start with yourself.
There are 5 ways to prevent poverty:
Have a self discipline.
Cooperation
Educate individuals on how to handle money.
Provide holistic health resources and support to community members
Create a positive empowering environment that encourages individuals to dream, create a vision, and strive to be the best they can be for their community, family, and themselves
No poverty measure is perfect, but the official federal measure is flawed by the fact that most benefits provided by government, including most cash and in-kind benefits and all benefits.

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Although educating people on how to handle money can be a useful concept to learn it wouldn’t necessarily take a toll on poverty on its own. I believe the people should instead seek ways to save money for certain organizations helping people living in poverty giving them insight on how to donate effectively. This can be a learning experience for those that want to help the community as well as give ways to manage money productively at the same time. It’s a win-win situation.

The following focuses on the issues extreme poverty can cause in society. It displays how causes and effects of poverty all relate in such a way that they always occur at the same time.

Homelessness, or extreme poverty, carries with it a particularly strong set of risks for families, especially children. Compared to children living in poverty but having homes, homeless children are less likely to receive proper nutrition and immunization. Hence, they experience more health problems. Nearly all possible consequences of poverty have an impact on children lives. Poor infrastructures, unemployment, lack of basic services and income reflect on their lack of education, malnutrition, violence at home and outside, child labor, diseases of all kinds, transmitted by the family or through the environment. Issues like hunger, illness and thirst are both causes and effects of poverty. Not having access to water means that you are poor, and being poor also means that you may not be able to afford water or food either. In other words, poor health, lack of water or housing, child abuse or violence fuel a cycle of poverty in which so many end up trapped for life.

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The fact that people are living in the streets and in extreme poverty is devastating because they are more at risk of health problems. They don’t have money to provide them with shelter, water, food, medicine, education and basic needs. People are dying because of health issues and lack of access to basic human necessities. Poverty is the main reason for this.

3. Activism is KEY
Join an organization/non-profit…they are GREAT! Pick things and events to do with poverty to work with. From that group, plan things such as events and other things that would gather proceeds to donate for poverty.
Or maybe start your own organization! Even though kids may be homeless, it’s not a bad idea to team-up with other organizations such as Planned Parenthood and go from there. In her book Social Media: How to Engage, Share and Connect, Regina Luttrellnotes to analyze your audience.
In this case, not just a PR Practitioner keeps these principles in mind – anyone who is running an organization should.

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I really liked this article because the topic, Poverty, is one I am also attempting to raise awareness on in my blog site. I agree with you that our duty as citizens is to volunteer and if we can, join a non-profit organization. I found it interesting that you provided multiple ways we can help solve the problem of poverty. Since you said activism is key, my friends and I are attempting to become activists ourselves!

Poverty effecting our youth, the next generation, is a HUGE issue. In roughly 20% of New York City neighborhoods at least 30% of households are living below the federal poverty line. http://furmancenter.org/thestoop/entry/focus-on-poverty

https://www.amny.com/news/poverty-stats-show-roughly-30-of-nyc-children-are-poor-furman-center-says-1.13712114Nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers — or 1 in every 5 city residents — lived below the poverty line between 2011 and 2015, the largest number seen in the city since 1970, according to a report by the NYU Furman Center, released Wednesday.

And of those residents, children under 18 were more likely to be living in poverty than any other age group, with 535,700 kids, or roughly 30 percent of the city’s youth in poverty. We can NOT allow for more than 500,00 kids to live in poverty. They are our future. Especially if we as a city and country continue to modernize, we can’t leave our youth behind.