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Homelessness

Monday, May 28, 2012

High Meadows Students Investigate Homelessness

As part of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, students made presentations on the subject of homelessness, Monday, May 21.

As High Meadows fifth graders complete their International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme, they have the unique opportunity to create their own final unit of inquiry to explore and this year they chose homelessness. Focused on the central idea that shelter is a basic need and we have a responsibility to protect the availability of shelter for all living things, students made their final project presentations, Monday, May 21. The final project gives students the chance to highlight the skills and attitudes they have developed over the years, to lead their own investigation into a relevant and significant global problem, as well as offer solutions. Exhibition Night allows students to present what they have discovered, using a …

Monday, September 26, 2011

HomeStretch Volunteer a Domestic Abuse Survivor

Edie Davidson, a survivor of domestic abuse, has empathy while volunteering for HomeStretch of Roswell.

  These days Edie Davidson is a volunteer at HomeStretch in Roswell; but looking back, the domestic abuse survivor didn't know if she would make it this far, much less be able to help others coming out of similar situations. There is a lot of laughter around the HomeStretch offices, where Davidson tries to give back by volunteering every week. HomeStretch is a non-profit organization that supplies temporary housing to homeless families. Davidson can definitely relate. “There were no support groups in those days [when I faced homelessness],” Davidson said. “It was always your fault. If a woman was homeless, it was her fault. If you were beat up, it was always your fault.” Davidson, who has been with HomeStretch for three years, performs …

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