Ending with the shame and blame about poverty

Mary lives and works to Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.A and she is a Poor Peolple Human Right Campaig's activist. The main purpose of the organization is to eradicate poverty and social exclusion from the world.
In the last years in Chattanooga a lot of families are dealing with poverty and precariuos condition; it's a real "chain of the poverty": unemployment, insecurity of the house, they are unable to pay the mortage and in the end homeless.
Mary says that the first and biggest problem is to remove the poor people's sense of guilty; they think they are loosers and they have something wrong and they are unable to change their own problematic conditions.
The organization operate at local level, giving practical and legal informations to families, and supporting the community to occupy the empty houses of the area.
The good practices implemented by the organisation demonstrate that the community work has a positive effect:people meet and work together without cultural religious and social barriers and they claim a State working to serve the people and not the profit.

social work,community work,training,hauses occupation.

Anti-racism  , Citizenship , Group dynamics  , Right to housing , Social inclusion

citizienship, social exclusion, human rights, housing rights, homelessness, poverty