Community Education
EDGE NEBRASKA CITY
Film Event: Standing Up to Poverty
(NE Loves Public Schools Films)
A Framework for Understanding Poverty
An Overview
- “Could You Survive In Poverty” challenge
- Understanding the Hidden Rules of Class
- The general definitions of poverty and local statistics
- The common ways people move out of poverty
Poverty Simulation Experience
This experience is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live in a typical low-income family trying to survive from month to month. It is a simulation, not a game. The objective is to sensitize participants to the realities faced by low-income people.
In the simulation, up to 88 participants assume the roles of up to 26 different families facing poverty. Some families are newly unemployed, some are recently deserted by the “breadwinner”, some are homeless and others are recipients of federal aide programs. Still others are senior citizens receiving Disability or Retirement or grandparents raising their grandchildren. The task of the “families” is to provide for basic necessities and shelter during the course of four 15-minute “weeks”.
The experience lasts 2.5-3 hours, and includes a time of debriefing for all participants.
There is a facilitation fee for this program.
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