With the nature of our project, it would be very difficult to imagine the actual struggles that previously incarcerated individuals with AIDS through on a day to day basis. However, with the interviews and insights I was able to gain from professionals working with those individuals and the actual individuals themselves.<\/p>\n
Growing up, the society in which I would live would tend not to be the best and most economically strong place. After a negative upbringing, drug use and crime tends to be imminent. After possession and use, Incarceration would be a given for possibly up to many years. Family would disappear and friends would fade, as this struggle of life would be dealt with.<\/p>\n
Coming out of prison, there is ultimately nowhere to stay. There is no family, no friends (who have such a place to stay). There is no guaranteed medicine anymore as that was only in prison and there is a criminal record looming. Employers say no when jobs are sought after and landlords can\u2019t provide housing because there is no collateral and no fixed cash flow incomes.<\/p>\n
With this in mind, what even are the options for help? AIDS ministries only provide medicine for a certain period of time and temporary housing and Imani Unidad only provides group meeting and counseling. What is needed is a change in lifestyle that can only be accomplished by getting a job and housing. Without, the viscous cycle of committing the same crimes and spirilling back to prison is almost a guarantee, if not sought after completely (permanent housing, medical care, food).<\/p>\n
This, as explained to me, is really the immersion experience that these individuals go through. Our project seeks to highlight these individuals and try to bring about a product that can be implemented so that these people may become their own best self-advocates. A change that can fight the systematic discrimination brought on by people who are actually trying to bring about a meaningful difference to their life and for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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