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LOOKING THROUGH

: A PORTRAYAL OF MARGINALIZED PEOPLE IN SOCIETY

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Social exclusion, marginalization or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society. Social exclusion is a multidimensional process of progressive social rupture, detaching groups and individuals from social relations and institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal, normatively prescribed activities of the society in which they live.

Social exclusion is the process in which individuals are blocked from various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration and observance of human rights within that particular group (e.g., housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation, and due process).

Alienation or disenfranchisement resulting from social exclusion can be connected to a person’s social class, race, skin color, religious affiliation, ethnic origin, educational status, childhood relationships,living standards, and or political opinions, and appearance. Such exclusionary forms of discrimination may also apply to people with a disability, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, drug users,institutional care leavers, the elderly and the young. Anyone who appears to deviate in any way from perceived norms of a population may thereby become subject to coarse or subtle forms of social exclusion.

The outcome of social exclusion is that affected individuals or communities are prevented from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the society in which they live. This may result in resistance in the form of demonstrations, protests or lobbying from the excluded people.

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13 America is a dream. We are a nation created by our collective dreams. Our founding fathers dreamt of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.� Martin Luther King had a dream of freedom. Others dream of material success. Millions migrate to our shores because America continues to be the place where dreams come true.

Yet within our borders a generation of American children exist outside the dream.

There are more than 13 millions American children living in poverty and despair. Half of all poor people in America are children.

These are good kids. They have dreams.

Perhaps we will someday allow these children to become part of the American dream.

One experienced mother and grandmother and one new government official commit to listen and learn to protect indigenous communities and the environment. See how two women work to empower citizens, remedy past errors, and improve the delivery of health, education and other needed services.

And, learn how to build a kitchen in a rainforest.

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Poverty means more than a lack of income.

It also means a lack of resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods, such as food, clothing, clean water and proper shelter. Poverty has many detrimental outcomes for children — hunger and malnutrition, ill-health, limited or a lack of access to education and other basic services. When children are raised in impoverished households, they often have to drop out of school to help their families or don’t attend school at all. Without an education, they have very little chance of breaking the cycle of poverty in which they live.

Poverty can cause children permanent damage, both physically and mentally, and in both the short and long term. A lack of essentials can stunt their growth, cause them to fall behind in school, and lead to health problems for them. It also affects their roles within their families, communities, and society as a whole. Poverty denies children their human rights, and it leads to a vicious cycle of deprivation, which is difficult to break without proper support or assistance.

on an individual basis. We work closely with our volunteer coordinators at our project sites, who are familiar with each individual circumstance, and the needs of every child in their care. Sponsorship donations are sent to our projects – orphanages, homes, community centers, and schools – at the beginning of each month in the form of subsidy stipends. Our on-site volunteer coordinators use these funds to purchase basic and education-related items for children in our program, to ensure that they have what they need to do their very best and succeed in school.

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Children Incorporated provides basic necessities such as food, clothing, healthcare, and educational support to children living in poverty in the U.S. and abroad. These essentials, so often taken for granted, are vital to a child’s growth and success in school. Each year, we give thousands of impoverished children all over the world a chance at a better life.

You can help a child living in poverty in a few different ways. One is through our child sponsorship program. Our sponsorship program does more than just feed or clothe a child; for $30 a month, you not only help meet the basic and critical needs of a child, but you also make an investment in their future. Our policy has always been to consider the needs of each sponsored child

DREN INCORPORATED? You can also help children in need by donating to one of our special funds. Our special funds offer a variety of giving options for sponsors who wish to further their support.

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VOICE OF According to the World Health Organization, people with disabilities – that is, people with physical, sensory, intellectual or mental health disabilities – make up 15 per cent of the world’s population. Yet when attention is focused on indigenous or minority issues, the situation of those living with disabilities within those communities is rarely considered.

Too often, members of indigenous and minority populations who live with a disability, and their families, find themselves struggling to meet the competing needs and challenges of their identity within often marginalized communities and the demands of living

with a disability. People with disabilities in indigenous and minority communities represent a group often overlooked, yet who have much to contribute to their communities and to the broader society. In summary, a growing body of research and advocacy tells us that when people with disabilities are able to participate fully and freely in their communities. All groups and advocates working within or on behalf of indigenous and minority communities must not forget to include these millions of children and adults in all the policy, programmes and advocacy work they undertake.

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23 One experienced mother and grandmother and one new government official commit to listen and learn to protect indigenous communities and the environment.

See how two women work to empower citizens, remedy past errors, and improve the delivery of health, education and other needed services. And, learn how to build a kitchen in a rainforest.

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After a person does their time, they are released out into the streets with little to no support. As a convicted criminal, it’s nearly impossible to get a job. Many end up homeless.

Like this or not, as a taxpayer, we all pay huge tax money per homeless person that’s out on the streets. Our criminal justice system is broken. Patrick is 53 years old and lives homeless on the streets of Austin, Texas. After 30 years in the prison, Patrick was released to homelessness.

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out on the streets. A few hospitals have been sued for patient dumping, but they still do it. Homelessness. It’s one of the most challenging problems we face as a society. It’s also one of the most solvable.

The first step to solving homelessness is acknowledging that its victims are people.

Regular people. Fathers. Mothers. Veterans. Whole families.

Folks who fell on hard times and lost their core foundation of being human – their homes. See. Learn. Take Action.

Changing the story of homelessness.

XXXXXX Patrick suffers from mental illness. He has several fingers amputated from his right hand and a dislocated shoulder.

Even if there was someone who would hire an ex-felon, Patrick is disabled and cannot work. He says he’s tried to get out of homelessness, but the cost of housing is too much. Patrick has a sister that tries to help, but she’s hurtingto help, but she’to help, but she’to

help, but she’to help, but she’ too.Patrick got emotional and asked to stop the interview. I can literally feel Patrick’s pain and frustration.

Homelessness is hard.

He’s paid the price for whatever crime he committed. There should be support for people like Patrick, but our criminal justice system is broken.Stephanie says homelessness is hard being judged and pointed at looked

down by people who don’t understand the situation. Most people believe people are homeless because they don’t want to work or do anything for themselves.

Stephanie continues there are people in the camp who had homes and have jobs but lost everything do to a crisis or an illness. In Stephanie’s situation, it’s both crisis and illness.

The owner sold the home Stephanie was

living in. Although she was sick with cancer, she had to leave the property in 24 hours. Stephanie then went through major surgery. She says the hospital excited her back to homelessness even though she needed recuperative care, where she then survived on the streets severely disabled.

Sadly, hospitals are known to exit patents without insurance or a place to stay

Tents dot the Tenderloin, homeless folks sit on Market Street and the outer neighborhoods have streets lined with RVs where people who don’t have a roof over their heads go to crash.

lion — launched innovations, including the counseling-intensive shelter system called Navigations Centers, and created the city’s first unified Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.

But here’s the startling fact: San Francisco has fewer homeless people now than in 2004, when the city launched a series of long, intensive and only partially successful efforts to put every street person under a roof. The trouble is that the streets don’t look like progress has been made.

The biggest homeless tent camps were all dismantled in late May 2018 under orders by then-Mayor Mark Farrell, and police enforcement coupled with street counseling since then under Mayor London Breed has keep them from re-forming on the same scale. But without enough housing to place all the campers inside, smaller settlements and homeless wanderers persist. The waiting list for beds in the city’s shelters routinely tops 1,000.

Over the past 15 years, the city has housed 27,000 homeless people, many of them the chronically troubled type who had been on the streets more than a year. San Francisco has doubled what it spends directly on homelessness — to more than $300 milLet’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

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Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

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those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized. Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized. Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized. Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

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When people think of a homeless person they don’t necessarily think of the guy who not only was a star high school athlete but also has a college degree—yet that’s exactly what I am.

I have a Bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Miami. And I wasn’t the only one out there with similar credentials. There are plenty of extremely intelligent people who, for various life circumstances, end up homeless. And even the ones who may not have a formal education have to get smart in a different way if they want to survive.

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33 One experienced mother and grandmother and one new government official commit to listen and learn to protect indigenous communities and the environment. See how two women work to empower citizens, remedy past errors, and improve the delivery of health, education and other needed services. And, learn how to build a kitchen in a rainforest.

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Stockholm, 21 March 2017 – A quarter-century of impressive human development progress continues to leave many people behind, with systemic, often unmeasured, barriers to catching up. A stronger focus on those excluded and on actions to dismantle these barriers is urgently needed to ensure sustainable human development for all. These are the findings of the Human Development Report 2016, entitled ‘Human Development for Everyone’, released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The report finds that although average human development improved significantly across all regions from 1990 to 2015, one in three people worldwide continue to live in low levels of human development, as measured by the Human Development Index.

Leaving no one behind needs to become the way we operate as a global community. In order to overcome the barriers that hamper both human development and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, inclusiveness must guide policy choices,” said Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, speaking at the launch of the report in Stockholm today, alongside UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and the report’s lead author and Director of the Human Development Report Office, Selim Jahan. “The world has come a long way in rolling back extreme poverty, in improving access to education, health and sanitation, and in expanding possibilities for women and girls,” said Helen Clark. “But those gains are a prelude to the next, possibly tougher challenge, to ensure the benefits of global progress reach everyone.”

This is a concern in developed countries too, where poverty and exclusion are also a challenge, with over 300 million people – including more than one-third of all children – living in relative poverty. Left behind and unable to catch up: systemic discrimination against women, indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities, among others The report notes that not only are deprivations high, but disadvantages disproportionately affect some groups. “In order to advance, we need to examine more closely not just what has been achieved, but also who has been excluded and why.”

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Thousands of Korean women were lured or coerced to work in brothels serving the Japanese Army during the 1930s and 1940s, but stigma kept the topic from being widely discussed after the war. By the time Ms. Kim heard the radio report, some women had come forward to tell of their ordeals and demand that Japan take responsibility for what happened to them.

“I could relate to going to a foreign land for economic reasons and to send money to their homeland,” Ms. Kim said. “This is very sensitive to every family in Korea because it could have happened to their own daughter.”

Kang Duk-kyung, 67, often was angered when hearing the Japanese government on television news denying involvement in the practice of comfort women.

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Typeface: Titles, text and folios are Knockout, Yrsa and Lunar Eclipse Software: Adobe Creative Cloud InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Print and binding: Paper is Moab Entrada Rag Bright 190. Printed and bound at Imagink in San Francisco, CA. Date May 17, 2020 Publisher: MoMA Designer: Zaki Zhang About this project: This is a student project only. No part of this book was produced for commercial use.

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Marginalized communities, socially excluded groups of people for different reasons, such as age, physical or mental disabilities, economic status, access to education, or live in isolated places or depressed areas. LGBT communities, ladyboys in some asian countries, disabilities, psychos, even homeless could be defined as marginalized populations in most of the countries. When you push people to the edge of society by not allowing them a place within it, you marginalize them, edging them out. Understanding marginalized communities is essential to breaking down barriers in between people. Building equity for all is one of the main things we need to discuss in our society.