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Poverty in the Classroom

Why is that child so rude? What is wrong with that mother that she allows her daughter to come to school dressed like that? Why doesn’t he ever do his homework? That child is...

Read more January 26, 2017 at 9:13 am Beth

A Labor Day Exercise

Purpose: We rarely realize how dependent we are on all kinds of people. This exercise helps us see that our lives are enriched by many other people in ways we often do not think...

Read more September 5, 2016 at 11:05 am Beth

Sobering Facts 2016

  The 2016 federal poverty level for a family of 4 in South Carolina is $24,300 and is $11,880 for one individual. The area median income in 2014 is $45,238 (SC) and $44,783 (Greenville-Mauldin-Easley)....

Read more July 29, 2016 at 10:17 am Beth

Not the Usual Group

When I facilitate the poverty simulation, participants are usually people who have resources who want to learn a bit about what it feels like to live in poverty. They willingly submit themselves to a...

Read more April 22, 2016 at 10:47 am Beth

New Study on Financial Self-Sufficiency for South Carolina Familie

New Study on Financial Self-Sufficiency for South Carolina Families Columbia, SC (January 19, 2016) – A new report takes a realistic look at how much is actually needed to support a family in South...

Read more February 9, 2016 at 11:20 am Beth

Where Do You Fit In?

People ask me, “What can I do to help people who live in poverty?” and that’s always a hard question for me to answer. Each one of us has a particular passion or interest...

Read more December 1, 2015 at 4:24 pm Beth

Budget Scenario

Based on very conservative spending assumptions Wages:                       $11.00 an hour job, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. Net take home:        $8.25 /hour or $1430 a month. Housing:   ...

Read more September 8, 2015 at 11:08 am Beth

Energy and Exhaustion

I have the opportunity on a regular basis to help people begin to look at their community in ways beyond what they know, feel, and think. Sometimes people are extremely grateful that they gain...

Read more September 1, 2015 at 5:02 pm Beth

Suggested Reading about Poverty and Serving Others

Our Eyes Were Opened, Inc. Annotated Bibliography for Recommended Reading Berreby, David, Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2005. Berreby shows how science tackles questions of group...

Read more August 10, 2015 at 2:02 pm Beth

Crazy Month for Simulations

August is a CRAZY month for poverty simulations. Schools want the experience for their faculties before the students come back for class.  The Greenville Health System’s newest class of Medical Students are arriving and...

Read more August 3, 2015 at 11:54 am Beth

Definition of Rich

The Bible talks a lot about the rich and the poor.  The Bible never talks about the middle class. One is either rich or one is poor. There seems to be no in-between. This...

Read more July 14, 2015 at 1:30 pm Beth

Comments from the Poverty Simulation

Last week I facilitated a poverty simulation for the MedEx Academy sponsored by the Greenville Health System. Participating were high school seniors and college juniors and seniors who are planning careers in the medical...

Read more July 14, 2015 at 11:45 am Beth

Just as They Are

Simone Weil wrote in Waiting for God: “ I have the essential need… to move among of every class and complexion, mixing with them and sharing their life and outlook, so far that...

Read more June 29, 2015 at 10:24 am Beth

What Defines a Good Act?

What defines a good act? According to Parker Palmer, good acts “are those that allow people the freedom to choose their own destinies.” (Active Life, p. 47) If we use this definition, how many...

Read more June 3, 2015 at 5:06 pm Beth

What Can I Do?

Edward Everette Hale penned these words that I’ve seen on posters and  quoted many times. That must indicate that he said something significant! You decide: “I am only one, but still I am one....

Read more May 11, 2015 at 11:16 am Beth

What High School Students Learned from the Poverty Simulation

On April 21, I facilitated a poverty simulation for 146 students at Hartsville High School. Here are some of the comments from the students: I think that the most successful part was learning how...

Read more April 27, 2015 at 9:59 am Beth

How Our Eyes Were Opened Got Its Name

Sometimes I’m asked about why I named my company Our Eyes Were Opened, Inc. Well, the Inc. part is just part of being a company. The name, Our Eyes Were Opened, however, has several...

Read more March 26, 2015 at 7:06 pm Beth

What I Have Learned

I have now facilitated the Poverty Simulation for more than 5000 people. These are a few of the things I have learned about the process…not the specific insights that people share in the debriefing...

Read more March 3, 2015 at 10:31 am Beth

When is a baby no longer cute?

A recent report released by the Children’s Defense Fund reported that one in five children in this country is poor (12.2 million children) In South Carolina, more than 1 in 4 (26.9 percent) were...

Read more February 17, 2015 at 10:22 am Beth

Life’s Curve Balls

Sometimes life just throws you a curve ball. You are expecting certain schedules, happenings, relationships. Your well-considered plans simply cannot materialize. The weather may not allow you to go on the hike or bike...

Read more February 9, 2015 at 9:30 am Beth
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Beth Lindsay Templeton

As a community activist, author, minister, consultant and teacher, Beth Templeton hosts a variety of workshops to help remove our "blinders" when addressing persistent poverty in our society.

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Our Eyes Were Opened helps people understand about poverty so they can reach out with wisdom and compassion.

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