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We were all getting in line early. Sometimes it's best to get there 3 or 4 hours early. If you are at the end of the line, that means that you probably won't get as much. Some places don't have enough. More and more people are coming out, and the lines are getting longer.
- Miracle B.
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Dark hallways, no cameras. The elevator’s out most of the time. We have no choice but to walk down the steps. I try not to take my daughter down with me so much because there’s no air, there’s no window. It’s Section 8 housing. I’ve lived there now about 5 years. I had to move out of another apartment because people kept breaking the front door. I kept writing letters and they were pretty much ignoring me, until somebody else got involved. It’s just sad.
- Lelise C.
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“This picture is of my godchild. She is outside playing. She’s outside playing and smiling, running up and down the street like a normal child. I watch all the children while they’re playing outside, and make them come in the house whenever I come in the house to get something. It’s just something that… it’s something that I do. It’s just something I do, ever since my little cousin was murdered. I do that with all of the kids: mine, my brothers’, my friends’ kids, everyone.”
- Sade G.
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This is my son’s play area in the house. My apartment is like a shoebox. It’s really small, and I’m paying a thousand dollars for something I have to make my son a play area in the corner to live in. We spend all this money, and we don’t even have space.
- Jessica E.
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I don’t have a phone, so I have to use pay phones. That’s the closest phone. It’s been broken for two years now. There’s another phone, too. But I don’t go there because of drug dealers over there. I have to walk to where the train station is to use a phone to call the welfare office.
- Ashley O
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Those are abandoned houses behind my yard. Those two houses were set on fire--that got my daughter sick for a week with her asthma. I hate it. I hate this neighborhood.
- Angelica R
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I waited for two and a half hours at the pantry to get that bag of food. The wait was so long because it was the end of the month - there were so many people.
- Kimberly H.
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It only happened one time with my baby, that she never had diapers. Like I did not have one diaper and I will never let that happen again. It says, “Every baby in need.” Every baby has a need. My baby at that time needed diapers and it was either diapers or something my other child needed.
- Quanda B.
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Let’s say Welfare is giving me this money… every two weeks I get a check but I still have to make with these hands money. Because my kids still need to eat for those two weeks. So they say food banks… the food banks give you canned food. Who’s gonna eat cans of tomato sauce? Nobody. I may do someone’s hair and be able to get noodles with that tomato sauce to feed the kids, to feed myself.
- Shelly G
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Her dad borrowed my camera. He took those pictures at work--he does landscaping. Look at my future house--when I become a millionaire.
- Angelica R
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An idea of where I am living. They sit out there and smoke crack late at night, because the guy that sells crack is a few houses down. So they might grab the crack and sit right there.
- Angela M
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Graffiti is everywhere… everywhere. It’s like wallpaper, it won’t go away.
- Ashley O
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Dornsife School of Public Health 
Drexel University 
