Human+Development+ICS16OWE

=Step 1 = Reflect on and answer the following questions in an essay:
 * 1) What is the poverty rate in your state? In your county? Does this surprise you?
 * 2) What are the ways that you show love and walk humbly in your life with God?
 * 3) How does CCHD show their work for justice? Why does CCHD believe it is important for local groups or communities to be involved in the issues affecting the daily lives of people living in poverty?
 * 4) What is a good example of a charitable organization in your county or state? What do they do? How are they providing charity in your community?
 * 5) What is a good example of a social justice organization in your county or state? What do they do to provide social justice to the people they server?

=**Notes for Questions **= 1) The poverty rate in Florida is 16.5%. The poverty rate in Hillsborough county is 19.1%. This does surprise me because I never knew that there was so much poverty in the area we live in.
 * 46.2 million people are in poverty.
 * Poverty can lead to crime and drugs
 * The goal in life is to be like Jesus and get to heaven, but that has to start here on earth.
 * "The more we strive to secure a common good corresponding, to the real **needs** of our neighbors, the more effectively we love them." - Pope Benedict XVI

3) CCHD, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, work for justice
 * by making people aware of the poverty in that area so they can have the chance they deserve to try to get out of poverty.
 * giving grants to other organizations trying to help people in poverty
 * by doing this they can help spread hope through out their community.

=**Paragraph #1 **=

Poverty is when you are really poor. Poverty is very hard to escape once you fall into it. In Florida, the poverty is 16.5%. The poverty rate in our county, Hillsborough County, is 19.1%. I was surprised when I learned this information because I never knew that there was that much poverty in Florida. I want to help the people in our community escape poverty because I know with people's help they can escape poverty.

=**Paragraph #3 **=

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development or the CCHD is an program working to get rid of poverty in the U.S.. The CCHD works for justice in people's lives so they can get their essential needs. They can work for justice in many ways. One way is by making people aware of the poverty in the area that they live in so that the community can help families have the justice they deserve that can help them get out of poverty. Another way they can work for justice is by giving grants to groups who are trying to help they families in their communities get the justice they deserve. When they help the families, they can spread hope around their communities.