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Upcoming Events

Thanksgiving is coming soon. We would like a list of names who would like to volunteer a George R. Brown convention center to donate and serve to the less fortunate. Toys and clothing are also accepted and encouraged. Contact myself or Mohammed Osman for more info.

Week 7 Evaluations

this week i give myself an 8 on a grading sscale of 1-10. we have plans for the entire month of november for donations and community service. i've been stressing to others that they need to donate and i've even donated myself. we're still working our revisions for our research paper but it should be completed by the end the day or tomorrow.

Week 6 evaluation

For this week i would have to give myself a 9. We stressed the food drive all week and the previous week, started the toy drive and also are wrapping up our research paper.

Week 6 Evaluations

On a grading scale of of 10, I give myself a 7 because my partner and i have been devoting our time to research paper and getting other people involved with multiple donating drives. i will begin to go back to searching for more options to raise awareness and money.

Self Evaluation
Week 5

For this week, I would give myself a 8 because we advocated about poverty, introduced the food drive to homerooms, and also finished class work ahead of time again. We also got our flyers signed off to post.

Wk4 Reflection

This week we've made the school aware of a food drive that's in place accompanied by another senior capstone "World Hunger". We made copies of flyers to post around and will be up by the end of this afternoon. I am currently working on our research paper and gathering more information and perspectives of fellow peers to see their viewpoint of my capstone and what they think of poverty. I will try to have announcements of our project activity dates and other info to spread the word more efficiently.This week i give myself an 8 out of 10.

Mohamed Osman Self Evaluation
Week2
The grade i would give to myself for this week would be a 7 because we partnered up with the world hunger capstone members to host a food drive, and also because we updated our blog, finished our work, and started looking for organizations associated with helping the homeless or hungry.

Week3
The grade I would give to myself for this week would be a 8 because I got a lot done before it was due. My interest on the topic builds more and more everyday, I started working on the project outside of class. The only flaw was not turning in my self evaluation on time.

Week4
The grade I would give to myself for this week would be a 8 because I stayed on top of my work and effectively established contact with organizations and programs, while turning work in on time.

Evaluation wk 3

This week we made flyers to post around to advertise our future donation drives. I also found a few statistics to post around as well to inform the students in the school some of the harsh reality the less fortunate live in. We're continuing to research and gather different point of views on the topic. We even got people to volunteer with us for community service. For this week I give myself an 8 on a scale of 6-10

Donations Donations

We will be hosting a food, toy, and clothing drives for the less fortunate. For any questions contact David English, Jose Teran, Mohamed Osman or Jose Chavez

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Evaluations

Second Week
I believe I deserve a 7 due a lack of study. Although i hacve found a few shelter and donation possiblitites and confirmed with other outside people to help out with the issue

Sept.6 2011
Self Evaluation

I believe that I deserve a 6 on a 1-10 scale for this week because although we turned in work we weren’t very tied into our project outside of class. Although we were attentive to our goals, we weren’t very effective in starting drives or contacting organizations. My desires and ambitions will drive me to stride for commitment outside of class.

Evaluations

First WeekI give myself a decent 90 for the amount of information gathered. Finding a way to fundraise has proven to be a bit challenging, but with the proper amount of brainstorming I'm more than sure we can achieve something great.

Introduction

Poverty is very common amongst the underdeveloped countries but it’s also a huge issue in the United States that doesn’t receive much national attention. If you have ever been hungry or had the need for money then you felt a bit of what homeless people or people living in poverty feel twenty four seven. Their cries, worries for younger family members, and their pleas for help to end their constant struggle of survival are often unheard.

The purpose of our project is to reveal the hardships of living in poverty and hopefully influence others to respond while we work to end local poverty or to just show the underprivileged that we care about them. We agreed to dedicate effort and time towards working towards this goal. People who live in poverty, in most cases, don’t have anybody to look out for their health or their well being. Whether it’s a meal, a coat, a sweater, or just spending time, we’re looking forward to helping the underprivileged.

• Age: The official rate of poverty for children aged 0-17 is substantially higher than for other age groups. In 1998 the child poverty rate was 18.9 percent (13.5 million children), a one percent drop from 1997, when it was 19.9 percent. The poverty rate for children under age six was 20.6 percent, statistically unchanged from 1997. The poverty rate for adults aged 18-64 and for seniors aged 65 and over was 10.5 percent. The rate for adults aged 18-64 was down slightly from 10.9 percent in 1997, while the rate for seniors was statistically unchanged.
• Race: Blacks and Hispanics suffer higher rates of poverty than whites and Asians. The poverty rate for blacks in 1998 was 26.1 percent, statistically unchanged from the year before. The poverty rate for Hispanics was 25.6 percent, down from 27.1 percent. The rate for Asians and Pacific Islanders was 12.5 percent, down from 14 percent (not a statistically significant change). The poverty rate for non-Hispanic whites was 8.2 percent, down from 8.6 percent. Even though the poverty rate for whites is lower than for other groups, because whites make up the largest share of the population, nearly half of the poor (46 percent) were non-Hispanic whites in 1998.
• Family Composition: Marriage tends to be associated with lower rates of poverty. In 1998, the poverty rate for female-headed households with children and no husband present was 29.9 percent. By contrast, the poverty rate for married couples was just 5.3 percent.
• Region: Historically, the South has suffered much higher rates of poverty than the rest of the country, but the difference has narrowed in recent years. In 1998 western states suffered the highest rate of poverty (14.0 percent), followed by the South (13.7 percent), the northeast (12.3 percent) and the midwest (10.3 percent). Geographically, more significant differences can be found between inner cities (18.5 percent) and the suburbs (8.7 percent).