As long as there are institutionalized inequalities, there's a need for organizations that address these concerns. The challenge is providing the type of leadership with the vision to show that these organizations are still relevant:

#1: Access to healthCARE

In Dallas, we visited an AIDS interfaith network, a habitat build, and Divinekinship, an urban garden.

The AIDS interfaith network especially relates to social justice in Dallas. The nonprofit assists individuals with transportation, nutrition, and linguistic translation. Social stigmas of having HIV are still a main factor in causing unequal treatment options.

It's important to treat not only HIV—but the diagnosed individuals—with respect, inclusion, and compassion that we would anyone else.

#2: Access to education

Consulates represent their government in a foreign country, which is responsible for its own fellow citizens, living, or travelling in a host country. In Dallas, we visited Mexico's.

There are many Mexican immigrants who don't have higher education or education backgrounds at all before they come to this country. Once they want to pursue degrees for school so they have chances to improve the quality of their life, the consulate will provide classes and qualified certifications after they finish their class and final exams. This program helps fill the blank of inequality of Education for them.

Mexican Consulate, UNT to provide education information center

#3 ACCESS TO HOUSING

West Dallas is an area previously affected by significant lead pollution, crime, poverty, and racial segregation. Habitat for Humanity ReStores are nonprofit, home improvement and décor centers that promote home ownership through donations.

Leaders in Habitat for Humanity have tried ways of getting more people in this community, and preventing vandalization. They've achieved this through donating to kindergartens and let children make "welcome home" murals on the fences.

More and more people still cannot afford their own houses. Thus, the need of such organization is necessary.

This organization has professional engineers to draw the draft and basic frame of a house first. They also train others on building houses.

Unemployed individuals—especially in the African American community—are making up more people that are out of work, and have decided to stop looking for work.

reflecting

What's our outcome?

How did we learn it?

How can we apply it in the future?