What Others Are Saying
“Poverty is very real and I feel this was a great way for people to be made aware of the challenges people face. It helped many of them understand why people may do or respond in many ways that they normally wouldn't do if they were not just trying to survive.”
Doris Agans
DCP Volunteer and worked in the social services of the simulation
“Knowledge is the first step toward change. During the simulation, you get to glimpse into the hardship that exist because of Poverty. Hopefully this glimpse will spur people on to get involved, serve and begin the process of change.”
Debra Fileta
Volunteer leader of Adopt A Block and worked in the social services of Simulation
“I instantly took to my role. In the simulation I was a 36 year old male, with a wife, 15 year old child and a disabled mother in law. Right away I threw all morals out of the window. I never saw my family during the simulation. Due to my action, I was put in jail by the police man going around. Therefore I was not there for my child growing up or there for my family. This was a great experience to understand just a little of what it is like to live with not much at all.”
Tim Fraim
participant in the Poverty simulation
“It was amazing to see how people changed. When poverty is involved in the family, the focus is on making money and surviving. Children and young people are ignored and there was no time for help with homework, meals as a family or social time together. It was survival mode. It just showed me that in any poverty situation...Its always the young that really suffer.”
Andy King
Executive Director of Dream Center Peoria