Links To Inform

Here are a few sites that I found useful when I was researching this topic and would recommend that you take a look at a few!

The Phoenix Children’s Project is a non-profit organization with the aim of helping the impoverished children in Phoenix.  They provide food, clothing, education, necessities and miscellaneous assistance to children and their families.  They commit to helping the kids’ build self-esteem, which in turn shows them self-worth.  In addition, they help the parents learn to fend for themselves. They will “give them fish a few times” but then “{they} teach them to fish.”  This site goes into detail of different ways you can help, as well as showing examples of how they have helped in the past.

The Phoenix Rescue Mission each year, has thousands of homeless people depend on them for food, clothing, and shelter as well as safety, spiritual support, addiction recovery, and a new start in life.  This site shares what programs they have, how you can help volunteer and a link to donate.  It is connected with the Changing Lives Center, which focuses more on building the people up, with the Children's Developmental Enrichment Center, Chapel, etc.  It describes what the real NEED is.

Kitchen on the Street is an organization that began out of a passion for helping those who cannot help themselves. One of the founders learned after many years of volunteering in local shelters that the most vulnerable never make it there. Kitchen on the Street combats hunger by taking help and hope to children and families in crisis. This site shares its story and mission to help feed the hungry, giving links to volunteer, donate and learn more about the problems.

Valley Of The Sun United Way mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of community.  Once you are at the homepage of this site, you are able to read about their goals, vision, campaigns, volunteer needs, donations and work.  It also informs you about different press and news releases dealing with them and their topics.  It is very resourceful and informative.

CNN.com is a great resource to find out about poverty in a more widespread form.  It searches to a few articles/sites about phoenix, but also shows articles of the poverty issue in politics all around the world.  It helps us to see more of the picture.