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That’s the tub, I took a picture of that because that’s a problem for me because like I can’t take a shower there; I have to wash up out of a sink. My mom's boyfriend has the money to get it fixed but he doesn’t want to get it fixed.
- Janelle R
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This is a photo from the Food Assistance Working Group. I walk this walk daily. I want to be the change I want to see, and what better way than to get involved.
- Kimberly 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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She was asking me for that yogurt. I felt so bad because it was outdated. It was old so I couldn’t give it to her. She was asking me for it, I said, ‘I don’t have it. It’s no good’… She was actually crying because I took it off of her and dumped it. And I didn’t have like anything else to give her.
- Angelica R
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"The house caught on fire one day and our porch caught fire, too. A lot of abandoned houses [have] been catching fire in the city and it’s destroying other people homes."
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Joanna's dad has to pay the bills, and that leaves little money left to buy enough food for the month.
- Sherita P.
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You see the abandoned buildings and the broken up sidewalks and just holes in the street, and all different kind of stuff, negative stuff. That’s discouraging. And you think of all the homeless people in the city. How could I go about maybe buying one of these houses and fixing it up for myself to live in?
- Erica S
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I took a picture of this is because to me, it’s dangerous. My bed is right underneath it. If something was to spark and go off, I’m done. It bothers me that that’s right there.
- Angela S
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They hide their needles and stuff in there and sell them right out of the newspaper receptacle.
- Erica S
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That’s my door. It's like all of us--just all locked up. And sometimes I feel like the welfare, that’s what it is, a locked door. Like tryin’ to get through a locked door.
- Tangela F
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Thank God for layaway. You can take and layaway a few pairs of pants, or go on the sales rack and they have $3 shirts, grab the kids a few. Last week, the kids needed jackets and I went to Foreman Mills and I was on the sales rack. I was there for hours trying to find stuff on the sales rack. Two-dollar shirts, three-dollar shirts, four-dollar pair of pants… whatever you can find within your reach. I know the government, they see the people who are on Welfare and they’re wearing Gucci and Prada and Polo. If I've got something like that it must’ve been on the three-dollar rack.
- Crystal S
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They need to watch us, but they won’t do anything about what they see. Very ironic. They say that they don’t see, but you have the camera that’s right where all of the drug dealers are, and all of the kids they are dealing to are always there. You know how many shootings are around here? When I first moved here, three people died the same week, murdered. My friends, I saw them die. We don’t really talk about it, ‘cause it’s like, normal to us. My friends died in my face; that I’m used to. It’s not normal, but I see it as normal, because I’m used to it.
- Tamara S.
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He was asking the case worker for something to eat. I don’t have child care, so I have to take him to my appointments. If he was in day care I wouldn’t have to have lugged him early in the morning to an appointment to the welfare office to try to get food stamps and medical coverage. I can’t help it if my baby’s hungry. I was thinking ‘I’m not going to lie to you miss, he’s hungry.'
- Imani S
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My daughter has some difficulties reading, but she’s doing well. We waited like five years on a list to get her into a Newton school to go through a program. In the beginning, it was difficult, because other children there, they are White, and Tiana was a different color. And she always asked me, in the beginning, mommy, why am I a color? I said, Tiana, a different color does not mean we’re different. We’re the same. But, the children got used to her. Sometimes, she had play dates.
- Taina P.
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Dornsife School of Public Health 
Drexel University 
