![]() Please help us all stand United and help pay for this young mans send off to heaven. RIP Roger, you were a great kid, an inspiration to many and you will be greatly missed. We feel honoured to have been able to at least capture some of his great qualities on film and that through the films we have made together he has inspired others to look at kids growing up in poverty in a different light. When you have little in life, family becomes so much more important and we know he will leave a massive whole in the hearts of those he has left behind. We truly believed Roger was going to work his way out of a life of poverty and struggle but sadly it was not to be. If you are in the USA please watch “Poor Kids” and you will see for yourself what an amazing brother he was to Zak and Brittany, his dad’s best mate and was still his mum’s gentle giant. The irony of this is that when we saw him recently Lauren and Jezza encouraged him to get his licence so he’d have more independence and job oppourtunities, never thinking for a minute that it would end his life. ![]() Roger, who took part in “Frontline Poor Kids” and more recently an updated version, was killed when his car hit ice and rolled. Last night an amazing young man lost his life in a car accident. With more than one in six of the nation’s children living below the poverty level, the film gives an unforgettable perspective on the impact of unemployment, foreclosure and financial distress through the eyes of the children directly impacted. ![]() Watch Poor Kids for the full story on how these children’s lives are now unfolding. Growing Up Poor in America Frontline: Season 39: Episode 1 USER SCORE No score yet tbd VOTE NOW 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Episode Details & Credits PBS Air Date: SeptemSummary: Spotlighting children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, race and new challenges due to COVID-19. “If you fall, you gotta get up, dust it off and keep on going,” says Johnny, now 19 and living with his grandmother on the south side of Chicago. “No matter what I go through, I’ll still, like, wanna try and try and try to be better,” says Brittany, now 15. Where are Kaylie, Johnny, Jasmine, Brittany, and their families today? Scattered across the country and still struggling - but still persisting. “Life is gonna be hard because there is hardly gonna be any jobs left in the future.” ![]() The film offers a sustained look into the normalization of “white rage” across the US, while also uncovering the stories of ordinary people who become extraordinary in their desire to challenge their deeply held beliefs and mend their divided communities.Then there’s nine-year-old Brittany, whose mother learned she was expecting another baby shortly after the family lost their home: “The baby’s future is gonna be weird and messed up,” Brittany said. With nuance and compassion, FOR THE LOVE OF RUTLAND creates an intimate portrait of the challenges facing rural America today and delves into complex lives of the community members valiantly taking a stand to heal their hometowns. Despite a lifetime of feeling invalidated and shamed for her poverty and addiction, long-time Rutland resident, Stacie, emerges from the sidelines as an unexpected and resilient leader. What followed was a deluge of deeply partisan rancor that threatened to split the small New England town in two. In 2016 the mayor of Rutland, Vermont, a predominantly white town struggling with income inequality, the opioid epidemic and political polarization, devised a plan to bring one hundred Syrian refugees to invigorate his community. ![]()
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