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About Us:

The purpose of the Poverty Program is two-fold: first to educate, publicize social and moral issues and events that impact poverty here at home and in the world; and second, a website for use by service organizations to list their services and their volunteer needs.

Supported initially by Rev. Ross Varney and members of the Belleville Congregational Church, the program became strengthened by other churches participating in the discussion and/or hosting the meetings. Churches involved are the First Religious Society Unitarian, Amesbury Monthly Meeting (Quaker), Salvation Army, and Congregation Ahavas Achim. Representatives from UNICEF, Homeless Coalition, Salvation Army, General Charitable, along with many individuals from Newburyport have chaired the informative presentations.

The Poverty Program is privately funded and run solely by volunteers. If you would like to start a Poverty Program in your area, please contact us and we would be happy to assist you.

About the Image:

The image of the hungry child in the bucket on the dirty street is the only image on the website because, in the words of the founder of the Poverty Program: "It is a perfect visual representation of poverty and why we all must do what we can to end world poverty: from the little, malnourished child; to the cries of the child that can almost be heard but we don't listen to; to the child sitting in that most unsuitable bucket in order to contain the child; to the bucket representing all the unsuitable, halfway measures that are indeed not enough; to the broken bucket representing all the broken promises made to the poor; to the bucket being set away and separate as we in the west would like to avoid facing the poverty of the world. The picture is so representative of the needs created by poverty but it is also representative of the current solutions: the leaky bucket."

Awards:

Newburyport Friends for Peace... supporting diversity and tolerance awarded a grant to the Poverty Program, for its series on the social and moral implications of poverty.

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