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Would you feel clean after taking a bath in mold and mildew? Of course not. No matter the brand of soap (Dove, Dial, Irish Spring) you will never feel clean. My 8 year old daughter has to get shots every Tuesday because of this.
- Renee J.
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I’m the block captain of this block. If anyone on this block needs brooms, the shovels that we have, we get them from the city. Just take care of it. And use it. Last year they gave us flowers and everything to plant. Everybody has a garden now.
- Melanie H
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That is the store that buys food stamps. They swipe it and put it into their machine and give six dollars for ten dollars. If you stop these people from selling food stamps, it'll stop hunger, because most of these young boys won't have to out and sell drugs to get a sandwitch. That is what they think they have to do. I don't think they have enough sense or their parents don't make them go to school to get an education or get a job, so that is what they think they have to do because mom done sold all the food stanps and the house is cold.
- Angela M
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Melanie works full time (and sometimes overtime) for a medical care company, but still doesn't make enough to live on her own and cover all her expenses.
- Melanie H
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We didn’t get anything but applications that day. We filled them out, but two employees, as a matter of fact, told us that you will not get a job there unless you keep coming back like every week. And I just felt like that’s so much energy to put on a thrift store job. I would put that much effort in another job in a hospital, in a legal office, in a non-profit organization. That I would put my energy into. I don’t even have transportation to get down to that thrift store.
- Ashley O
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You never know what goes on behind closed doors. Some people need to know exactly how we’re living being single moms, being that we’re on our own and we don’t have that many opportunities. When something breaks, we may not be able to fix it because we have limited income. It’s really hard to try to get everything fixed. […] How would my neighbor actually try to work with something like that? Being in a situation like that, your kids can stay hungry.
- Barbie I
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Mayra collects angels in her home, and they represent her hope for better things to come
- Mayra M
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My children love this playground. They have always played here and have so much fun. I'm worried that if they want to build more condos or buildings they will tear down the playground.
- Jessica E.
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"I’m struggling and the depression and the sadness I think really just comes from my harsh life. When you’re trying to do positive things and move forward and make things better, it’s discouraging and it’s hard and that’s depressing. It makes you sad. It makes you tired. It makes you want to give up. It makes you wonder "why?" "what's the point?" I want people to see that that’s a person who was just really having a bad day because of everything that goes on. It’s not always easy for us, period. Single women. Minority women. Women, period.
- Erica S
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That’s actually a house that I always used to pass a lot when I was working. That house is just so beautiful and I wish that I could own a house like that sometime. But right now I just feel like my main thing is that I need money. So I figure if had money… if I hit the lotto… maybe all my problems would go away because I'd have money, but who knows.
- Janelle R
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Regardless of the living conditions, I still try to make a nice, pretty, and decent home for my daughter.
- Renee J.
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He's in a program for teens like eighteen to twenty-five, who have a problem with selling drugs and getting locked up and stuff like that. And they help them get jobs. They train them to do like either construction, cooking, housekeeping, whatever it is that they wanna do. They get them into that training for free and they make sure they have their high school diploma or GED and then they send them to work. He went for construction so pretty soon he’ll be working for construction.
- Melissa H
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"It never ends because I got through one stack of papers to file like that this week. I have another stack that big in a drawer, plus the lady keeps coming and bringing more and more paperwork. I’m like, how the heck am I going to get through all this paperwork? My supervisor said, 'Oh no, you’re not going to get through it. You’re never gonna finish and it’s never going to be gone.'"
- Joanna C
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Dornsife School of Public Health 
Drexel University 
