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Womens Lunch Place Reflection #1 This week when I went to the Women’s Lunch Place I was a bit unenthusiastic due to the long travel there, but when there I perked up as I helped people cook the women’s lunch for their day. Today it was Spaghetti and meatballs an eggplant parmesan and garlic bread. We cut the eggplants ourselves, seasoned and cooked them ourselves. It seems like every week I go there I lean something new whether it is in the kitchen or about the women I am helping. This week I was in the kitchen mostly and didn’t get much of a chance to interact with the women. We prepared a spaghetti and meat ball and eggplant parmesan with garlic bread.

Women's lunch place Reflection #2 This week i was there in the kitchen for the whole time it was really fun not because the work i was doing it was just the atmosphere. In the kitchen we ply music and we all have fun with whatever we are doing. I was cutting a lot a lot a lot of lettuce pretty much the whole time. although it was extremely tedious i still did it with no problem. The women this week were still welcoming and i also cleaned the recycling bins. I feel that the women do know what i do there and do appreciate it. Cooking for them is a lot of fun and just knowing that I'm helping makes everything worth while. Women's Lunch Place Reflection #3 This week we were cooking meatloaf. It was very fun cooking it but the amount seemed absolutely extravagant. We started very early because cooking that much meat at once would take really long. When i served it i got a chance to interact with the women and i actually served a women with her two daughter. This was the first time I seen them and got a chance to talk to them about certian subjects. She seemed very optimistic about everything and wiling to talk to me. She tld me a little baout her childhood and about her school life. This week was very good and i enjoyed talking to this women.

Women's Lunch Place Reflection#4

This week at arriving to women's lunch place was a bit of a hassel but once there it was just fine. I have befriended a lot of other volunteers and we all have a commonality when volunteering and it is that we all know how bad it is for homeless women in MA and we al want to do our part to help. There are mostly college students and adults but this week i met someone who does inspire me as a person. There was this girl there hwo i had never seen before. She had told me she had been working there for 2 years and that she worked there last in the summer. She was from Boston Trinity Academy and she was volunteering for he whole vacation at women's lunch place during the day. She was only a sophmore in highschool. This striked me as odd at first because a she was on vacation and she was working there i guess that just shows how much this issue really means to her

Letter to Obama Dear President Obama, I am a Student attending Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill Ma. I have been taking a social change class where we learn about the problems that are occurring socially around the world and what we can do to fix them. We have been spending a lot of time on this one idea of micro financing organizations. These program's goals are to raise 3rd world countries out of poverty by empowering the women to become entrepreneurs of their own self sustaining company or business. I feel this would be a very good investment for America to put aid money in sometime in the future. I see it as a smart way to make people of these rural responsible for their own income and keeping the business going as well as giving them a way out of poverty. This is a simple to make America look progressive in its methods to help other countries and to seem generous for doing it in the first place

Guiding Questions:

What can be done to reduce Homelessness in America?

How is it affecting poverty? Mental Health and emotional side of homelessness?

What is/ Should be happening to stop or reduce homelessness?

Has budget cuts in MA affected the help homeless people get