Wednesday, May 1, 2013

During our first "Getting Ahead" workshop, we were faced with the task of exploring the intricacies of poverty. What are the daily issues people face who live in poverty (aka: living with few resources)? This mental model illustrates our list of concrete obstacles that prevent people with few resources from being able to think about the future. Poverty robs families of being able to plan and traps them in the "tyranny of the moment." This list represents some of the concrete roadblocks that impede self-sustainability as investigated by the group:


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