operation now a little over a year recognize the fact that a lot of our young boys and girls in the gramma graze for staying home to take care of children so therefore we were interested in providing some type of supervised care for these children and another thing that we thought in terms of if we could get the daycare center thought it would mean for some people full employment another thing that we were very concerned with is the fact that these children's parents would be able to work and they would have to worry about what one of their children doing at home another thing the fact that other communities in their county are interested and tragic provide some type of supervised care for the  nine one is my oldest boy quit school left last year he didn't go to school we did all we could we talk to him and my brother used to write to him and talk to him telling him but i guess he just didn't want to go to school anymore he feared that he never did have what the other is what he needed most of the time and it did when it got to where he had to pay for those  study anymore i really don't know we do occasionally have a few who cannot make make out in the public school they are so far behind from not having attended school regularly in their own homes that they are too frustrated to learn in the public school they they feel i can't do it and they as a result their behavior is difficult and the teachers find it very difficult to teach them for these children we have a special class here on our campus where they can hopefully receive the kind of individual attention they can use to get a new attitude towards learning and an interest in learning which they haven't had before these children the present time or are all teenagers working about on a third or fourth grade level in the three weeks that i state or another area i feel that just from work standards themselves work habits and their attitude about them so that they would be much different if they had had a good normal upbringing and i  of us a dream that had a purpose and that purpose was to provide the opportunity for employment for people such as these here in this room but without this or other industrial opportunity would not have a job there are many obstacles to overcome in the establishing of a new industry in an area that had never had any experience in textiles all of the local people had to be trained trained in jobs that are scale where we have no unskilled labor in our this was accomplished through cooperation of the state and federal government in their various training programs and we found that these people not only were anxious and willing but in some instances learn faster than people who had grown up around lot of people that need an opportunity we have many many applications on file right now there are such things as one indian man who had several children first week he was here his wife had to come down and get the car especially could put the commodities that she received in the bank of the car and a free gift from the rest of the working society to help them not starve to death this is a program that i am sure is very beneficial and we're not criticizing it at all but the person receiving something without giving something returned does not have the self respect that they need to really be a good american citizen and our grand opening we saw a little boy under the  out and this boy's father had been the man that had given the keys to his car to get the commodities the first week he had been there about four or five years old ran into the rope and pointed at his father and said in a great big voice that's my daddy and all of us that knew the story of this particular man got tears in her eyes because that boy couldn't point with pride that that's my daddy there doing a good day's work and getting an honest day's pay for  years old they have been patched and powered up and tell their they don't look too bad from the outside as you pass but that actually fall on the faces ninety five percent government loan only sufficient to buy materials this family set about repairing their house themselves it is not an easy job after working a long day on the farm but they are succeeding because of their powerful desire for something better now has and i were so worried about getting our house fixed for these winter then we started worrying how we would be able to to go on with the house we didn't have any two year old to to work on and my husband couldn't do anything about it he had to work to support the family member he was working he couldn't do anything here well anyway we found out from somebody that we could then we could have and so i thought maybe my husband and we finally decided to go in and see about it and these people were fortunate enough to be able to get help but such a system should be available to all who need it massive programs must be launched programs that consider the fact that impoverished communities can contribute only a part of the necessary funds the people of each community must get to know each other understand each other and finally act together james to me that this is what we've got to do any county that is really interested as got to bring together a good strong basis of public support not only are you interested person there's got to be representation from florida county commissioners from  city governments from all of the agencies that are concerned school community colleges industrial education centers welfare and health agencies climate service and there's also got to be representation  involvement participation by leaders in the communities where the people leave that most need help we've got to understand how these people look on life what the what they see as the barriers to their finding jobs finding opportunities for themselves and their children haters get amount community in washington county virginia our community like many others where a few men became concerned that anxious to do something for their town the important thing was to unify the people who were scattered throughout the area seizing upon the idea of a community club they held their first meeting a meeting that included about seventy members of the community itself and people from all the government branches in the county one thing was stressed everyone had to be involved to do this they launched a number of programs particularly in the field of recreation baseball games in the afternoon and picnics in the evening but money was needed for these projects to raise it they set up a lunch stand in a donated garage and rotating groups of volunteers from the community operated on weekends now the community wanted to broaden the scope of its projects involve the whole count more to help the people to accomplish this the director of the program wrote a letter asking for help the letter arrived at the united states department of agriculture in washington and almost immediately the townspeople had some help they learned of the office of the economic opportunity and were able to present their plans as a result they received a grant of approximately sixty seven thousand dollars to develop programs to combat poverty in the county one of the most successful of these home visitation program one young man only nineteen years old works with high school dropouts and others in the halls on the streets and many particular places school and take a trade and become specialized in ears sang around the particularly interested in is the illiterate people like specially the young  each day to help these people to learn this reading and writing so if they can go to school and take their place in this everyday world another worker in our home is a teacher and program is a must take the initiative organize and prepare programs to eradicate poverty again that means exist for a creative partnership between government and local leadership exists in the economic opportunity act in programs of the united states department of agriculture and in the services of other federal and state agencies now it is up to local leaders to act as start has been made much more remains to be done it is said that the poor will always be with us but knows what man may accomplish when his goals are high and his determination