Sisseton, SD

We asked the Horizons participants to give us their feedback about how their community is changing in the areas of Poverty Reduction, Increasing Leadership and Community Change. The next few posts are the responses to questions about each of those topics…

In what ways has this community’s knowledge about poverty changed? What evidence do you have of this?
Several people have read the Framework for Understanding Poverty by Dr. Payne. There are also many others reading the book by Dr. Payne titled Bridges out of Poverty. I know this because I have checked all the books out through my office.
Are more community members talking about poverty?
I believe there are more people talking and understanding poverty in a different light. There is a lot more work to do to get enough of the “right” people talking and coming up with solutions that will make a long term difference for people.

 What kind of difference does it make if people in your community better understand the causes of poverty?
If people really understood we would actually come up with solutions. We need to get the people involved in solving the problem that are living in poverty what do they need? There are more resources than just dollars that people in poverty are lacking. It is a process that is going to take serious decision making by the powers to be to get people on the road out of poverty.

Written by Gary

This entry was posted on Monday, March 10th, 2008 at 8:29 pm and is filed under 02. Poverty: Skills and Mobilizing, 03. Poverty: Action, 05. Leadership: Knowledge and Awareness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.