According to an article by the Nation Alliance to End Homelessness titled The State of Homelessness in America, "There is an estimated 553,742 people in the United States experiencing homelessness on a given night, according to the most recent national point-in-time estimate (January 2017)." This is very troubling and is something that needs to be worked on nationwide to decrease those numbers. A more current statistic from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2020 in the article, titled HUD Releases 2020 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report Part 1, found that "580,466 people experienced homelessness in the United States on a single night in 2020, an increase of 12,751 people, or 2.2 percent, from 2019." These statistics give background as to the trend of homelessness nationwide over the last decade.

The Southampton Street Shelter is a Homeless Shelter in Boston, Massachusetts located at 112 Southampton St, Boston, MA 02118. According to their website located on the "Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program" website, their mission is "to ensure unconditionally equitable and dignified access to the highest quality health care for all individual families experiencing homelessness in our community."

According to an article by the World Education Services titled How Literacy Levels Can Impact Your Career, "In the United States, more than 90 million adults lack the literacy skills needed to fully engage with the workforce." Literacy goes passed just communication alone, it is essential for everyday life in terms of everything you do. Lack of literacy is an Issue that is very widespread throughout America. According to that same article by the WES titled How Literacy Levels Can Impact Your Career, "literacy levels affect your ability to pursue the education and training opportunities that can be crucial to long-term career success." Literacy levels greatly impact your ability to achieve more in your personal career field whatever that may be.

As a group we hope to improve the literacy skills of many of the residents situated at the Southampton Street Shelter. We aim to do this in the promise that this will better themselves in order for them to achieve greater personal goals. We all have experienced how literacy has been a gift for us and has improved our lives and we hope to give that gift to others. By partnering with the Southampton Street Shelter we aim to reach out to the most people in Boston as possible to make a positive change in their lives.