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We're passionate about breaking the poverty cycle.
We believe generational poverty is:
- A spiritual state of hopelessness and emptiness,
- A mental state lacking the strength of discipline and confidence, and
- A life status without encouraging relationships or the economic resources to escape.
Generational poverty creates a concentration of economic, spiritual, and mental poverty in inner cities, demonstrating and teaching a perspective of little hope, no opportunity to escape, which then robs residents of a truly productive life.
Inner cities typically have thousands of young adults, and their neighborhoods are filled with deteriorated housing, high crime rates, and illicit activity. Simultaneously, our society is in great need of workers in the building trades. The young adults in these inner-city neighborhoods can be a tremendous asset to economic and societal growth if they are properly prepared.
Franklinton Rising believes that to reduce generational poverty, all three forms of poverty must be addressed in order to impact the most important population to bring about change in young adults before their patterns of life are entrenched.
