Stephen Armstrong

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The effects of poverty in 21St Century Britain is the focus of a new exhibition, the showcases, and those that try to help their neighbors fight. Four people make a difference in their communities to explain how they were involved.

'I want to a spark in The Plug -and-Micha, typical, he says, learned, each in his municipality of

Battersea and Brixton helped Micha, typical of The Man he is today, so he is now a repayment of The Debt .

"life was difficult as a child from a single-parent family," said the 30-year-old. "I was defiant, and in a lot of trouble in school. It takes a village to have a child to raise, so I learn only from my parents, I learned from everyone in my community.

"are the things that I would like to continue the awareness-raising of the next Generation . "

He first found work in call centres then a chance encounter at a funeral with Brixton Soup Kitchen founder Solomon Smith gave him his true Calling .

A chance encounter saw him at the end of the Brixton Soup Kitchen

"I know Solomon from back in The Day ," Micah said. "I've been asked to get involved, and I've never looked back. "

Now he is Center manager of the service, the food and legal advice to rough sleepers and the community.

"It is understood to be a Safe Haven for people to miss. Everything starts somewhere, there were UPS and downs, but we help people. I would like a spark in The Plug , I don't want to change The World , but I'm going to invest in a person. "

Micha is now its Center-Manager ', I knew hunger,'

After you know your own financial struggles, Mary Brennan saw their neighbors in Cross Green, Leeds, were also in trouble.

"I knew hunger and poverty," the 68-year-old said.

Mary Brennan began a community group in Leeds

"It's just families are started, the round here, the landlord, bed linen to seven people in four bedrooms and townhouses. I noticed you were hungry. "

they settled in Cross Green, where they helped to witness the fights of their neighbours

So, community, unity, a neighborhood in the group, operates a lunch club at St Hilda's Church, and created a garden on a disused railway bridge, where the community, you can your own food.

"We don't have a lot of bodies round here is not a shop where you can buy fresh food, and [there is] a terrible problem with the traffic," she added.

'If you're poor, you can't afford ideas' Steve Arnott says hip-hop has always been his love

poverty can be a barrier for the creativity, because people can't afford either The Money or the time to do it, according to Steve Arnott .

The 44-year-old from Hull, said hip-hop helped him through a tough childhood, and he saw how it could do the same for others.

"Hip-hop has always been my love," he said. "There were local workshops, which were not always a lot of children, because families could not afford the fares in the city.

"I had the idea that it is up to you. "

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In 2017, if his home city is the UK City of Culture, he launched the Beats - Bus-a mobile recording studio, he takes in the municipalities to attract, the young people wanted to know more about hip-hop, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti art.

"If you're poor, you can't afford the time to create ideas," said Steve . "The Beats Bus is trying to change, it brings free time in the studio to gifted children. "

Steve has a tattoo of a microphone on his forearm, " It is no shame to be poor,'

Will destroy The topics and Scholes area of Wigan are addressed by Barbara Nettleton.

previously, the tenant Association led to reduce to improve anti-social behaviour and the benefits, before they are running over The Sunshine house, house of a citizen.

The Site , which opened in 2005, runs the art groups and Youth Projects with a view to Helping People to find work. It also operates three shops in the Region offer the necessities, including second-hand clothes and strollers, toys and baby clothes.

Barbara Nettleton was a bit shy, that they Will be photographed

"When the mines, steel closed plants and factories, years ago, it has the teaching way, tore families and industrial areas like ours," said Barbara .

"It is no shame to be poor but it is shameful that we are. "

was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the photographer, Jillian Edelstein and investigative journalist Stephen Armstrong . It is on the Borough Market , London, from 20. February to 8. March .

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Source of news: bbc.com