Poverty

Logan Youth Speak Up About Poverty in WV

BAPS at Kids and Families Day

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On February 26th, 2013, BAPS youth leadership group, a program of the American Friends Service Committee, traveled to the West Virginia State Capitol for Kids and Families Day. Students participated in the kickoff of the statewide child poverty campaign, Our Children, Our Future: The Campaign to End Child Poverty Photos: Beth Spence

On February 26th, 2013  BAPS youth leadership group, a program of the American Friends Service Committee, traveled to the State Capitol for Kids and Families Day, to participate in the kickoff of the statewide child poverty campaign, Our Children, Our Future: The Campaign to End Child Poverty.

Logan Child Poverty Community Forum

Kyra and Jaylin

At Kids and Families Day at State Capitol ready to speak up about poverty

Saturday, March 16, 2013 - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Addiction? Incarceration? Unemployment? Obesity?  All these issues stem from vulnerable families trying to get by on a wage that is not live-able or in communities where jobs are scarce.  In 1970, the median job paid roughly $20/hour. Today, it's less than half that.  Our country can thrive when people have the means to rise out of poverty.

Contact Information: 

If your church or organization would like to be a sponsor, please contact Reggie Jones at reggie@prideinlogan.com or Lida Shepherd at Lshepherd@afsc.org

Documents: 
Community Forum Flier

Join Logan Youth at Kids and Families Day

On February 26th, youth participants of the Appalachian Center for Equality's leadership group will participate in Kids and Families Day at the State Capitol.  We will have breakfast at the Governor's Mansion where House Speaker Rick Thompson will talk about his personal experience living in poverty as a child.

Youth Join State Effort to End Child Poverty

Appalachian Center for Equality Youth Leadership in Logan, West Virginia is helping spearhead the local effort of the statewide Our Children, Our Future: The Campaign to End Child Poverty. At a community meeting on January 23rd in Logan, WV the youth voiced their concerns about child poverty and helped plan a regional forum in March where legislators and local officials will be invited to learn about

Food not NATO - Elect To End Hunger & Poverty

Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 7:00pm

Free and open to all!

-The amazing global effort to end poverty and militarism!
-An inspiring presentation by Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry.

Contact Information: 

 

Keith McHenry
Phone 575-770-3377
menu@foodnotbombs.net
www.foodnotbombs.net

Tony Hall to Discuss Hunger

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 6:30pm

Former Congressman Tony Hall will discuss ways to empower citizens to create the political will needed to address hunger and poverty.

Contact Information: 

Judy Zobel at (515) 225-0075

Email: 
judyzobel@msn.com

Many Strands in the Net of Subsistence: Alaskans Share Experiences, Values and Hopes

“Each culture has their own values…You understand our value of our resources, and we respect you for that.  Thank you for listening to us.” -Grace Washington

From 1998-2003, AFSC partnered with Alaskan Quakers to sponsor Alaskans Listening to Alaskans about Subsistence. 

West Virginia - Economic Justice in Hard Times: Then and Now

Economic Justice in Hard Times: then and now

Rick Wilson, director of AFSC’s West Virginia Economic Justice Project

Rome is burning—
no time to fiddle

In the grip of the Great Depression, as 89 percent of Lincoln County residents struggled to survive on meager relief payments and 6,000 children in McDowell County could not go to school because they didn’t have clothing, West Virginia’s democratic governors resisted federal initiatives aimed at stimulating the economy.

In An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression, Jerry B. Thomas relates how Gov. Guy Kump spoke out against a national “spending orgy” as he withdrew rural road projects, reduced relief rolls and slashed payments for desperate families.

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