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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

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

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

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

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

A Sampling of Comments from a Recent Poverty Simulation

Answers to poverty quiz questions 16-20:  16.c; 17.b; 18.c; 19.a; 20.c   What was the most successful part of the simulation for you? Teaching us about poverty and hardships people may have in their lives...

Read more January 22, 2015 at 10:02 am Beth

Our Eyes Were Opened, Inc. 2014 Annual Report

Annual Report 2014 Significant happenings: OEWO once again moved beyond Greenville County. I did workshops or simulations in Anderson, Pickens, and Beaufort counties as well as in Columbia, Roswell, GA. and Buffalo, NY. OEWO...

Read more December 29, 2014 at 11:19 am Beth

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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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