Blog week 3
This week I tried to complete my email my contact; I am still waiting for her to respond, hopefully she will. I found that the website CHIP was very helpful to me. The Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Center is a collaborative research and policy programmer which involves Save the Children, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) and partners in China, India, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. The one thing that stuck out to me one this website was a very interesting quote which stated “Today’s poor children are all too often tomorrow's poor parents. Poverty can be passed on from generation to generation affecting the long-term health, wellbeing and productivity of families and of society as a whole.” This statement is so true. I have seen this very thing happen in the community I live; to be honest it happens/ is happening every day. The interview with Dr. Grace was very informative to me. I could relate too many of the issues/topics she was talking about; it felt like she was hitting home. She said when living in poverty it sucks the life out of you. That statement was not only a sting but a light bulb also went off in my head because it brought back memories of my childhood. Even though I never lived in poverty, my closest friends did. I can remember my best friend telling me stories about her mother always being tired and not waiting to do anything after working. For this reason my best friend tried to help out as much as she could with her younger siblings. Her mother worked hard every day for her and her brother and sisters to have a better life today. She didn’t want them to suffer, but to be better than she was. When we were little we didn’t know what poverty was, but now my best friends other is relaxing comfortably. Her hard work paid off and her children are now successful and helping her out. Dr. Grace of confirmed that poverty has a bigger effect on those who are in poverty between birth to eight years of age. This is a very critical time for children. It is not only important that they get a solid foundation in education but health as well. I believe one reason that my best friend and her sibling made it was simply because she had positive relationships with loving and caring adults.
