tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75724326241751774992024-02-07T00:34:26.282-08:00A Walk In Other's Shoes - FamilyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572432624175177499.post-34734217073449184382014-02-12T14:27:00.003-08:002014-02-12T14:27:45.867-08:00All doneThank you to our families who participated in this year's challenge, to everyone who read the blogs, to the City and Northwestern Health Unit for allowing us to use your space and to those who donated soup for the wrap up (YUM!).
The blogs will remain open for everyone to read through-out 2014.
The world becomes our community, when we live like we are all family.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572432624175177499.post-63104809904660567032014-02-12T07:37:00.002-08:002014-02-12T07:37:33.662-08:00Last DayWell, the families have managed to make it through the five days on a very restricted budget. According to the blogs, they have actually been frugal enough to manage to have some change left over. Although their is no way to truly replicate the hurdles and barriers that living in poverty create, the participants have started the conversation. Do your bit, keep the conversation going....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572432624175177499.post-22129077509438362992014-02-10T08:02:00.001-08:002014-02-10T08:02:11.490-08:00Day 4The weather is not letting up. It is another frigid day.
Today is the first full day of school the kids will experience during the challenge. It is interesting to read about how they are reacting to the "rules".
<i>"Yesterday Branson asked why the poverty challenge didn't happen in summer when walking everywhere would be easier. Poverty does not take winter vacation."
</i> Boucher Family
<i>"At one point my son threw himself on the floor and threw a 15 minute tantrum about not being able to get a hot dog...he did get over it."</i> Griffiths FamilyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572432624175177499.post-1787170861663157982014-02-09T07:40:00.000-08:002014-02-09T07:42:54.580-08:00Day 3It is day three of the challenge. It is -38 with the wind chill. The city buses don't run on Sundays. Will the families "splurge" on a trip out of the house, or stay in to save the cash and frostbite?<br />
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Today is the first day of the Poverty Challenge. The Options Committee of Making Kenora Home would like to thank the Griffiths and Boucher families for volunteering their time and opening up their lives for us all to share.
Thank you to everyone who follows and shares the link to the blogs. As the participants "walk through" the next five days, we can all be a part of it by learning through their experience.
Let the challenge begin!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0