Poverty: Understanding Through Experience

The Poverty Simulation called Poverty: Understanding Through Experience is a signature program of the Alliance for Regional Solutions. This program is designed to provide participants with an experience in which they better understand what it means to be living in a low income family, struggling to survive from month-to-month. The objective is to sensitize participants to the realities of life faced by individuals living in poverty.

The Poverty Simulation Experience is an eye-opening event for those who attend; individuals experience, first-hand, the realities of living in extreme hardship. Simulations model real-life situations of persons who are in positions of influence and how they impact community members experiencing poverty such as public aid workers; educators; social service workers; attorneys, etc.

Here are some of the comments from our last event:

"It was eye-opening to walk in the shoes of my clients for one day and taught me to be more empathetic…