My conversation partner is with an elementary school teacher in New York. I chose her because of ease to contact and it is out of my region since I reside in Barbados. Though an elementary teacher, she has taken it upon herself to facilitate a summer camp within her home. The main reason she started the summer camp was to give parents an alternative place to send their child rather than the expensive summer camps or just leaving them at home to be watched by the television. She stated that usually only parents with money are able to send their children to summer camps and the poorer families end up leaving their children at home, and by the start of school they have done nothing to maintain their brain cells.
At her camp she provides less fortunate families opportunities for their children to visit cultural locations, and an hour a day of tutoring, while being to afford to send their children. She also stated that the affluent people spend the summer taking their children to visit places and see the world giving them the advantage of greater knowledge. While the less fortunate families aren't able to because of finances, so she provides an avenue for the children to learn more in order to put a stunt in the cycle of poverty with in families.
In order for the cycle of poverty to cease there must be someone or some persons who are not in it for the money, to see a need and cater to it. Children require exposure to different aspects of life in order to grow and develop into well rounded individuals. See a need and cater to it.
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