I partnered with one of my classmates Jordin for our Each One Teach One project. Our project focused on educating people on the basic facts about homelessness and trying to break stereotypes. We felt that this class has really taught us a lot about the homeless population and has broken several stereotypes throughout the course of the semester, which is exactly why we felt more people should be educated on the things this course teaches. For our project we originally were going to present to both of our sororities, but then we thought why limit it? We felt that tabling in front of the Commons would allow us to reach a larger population and to students who were “available.” By available we mean that they were students who had the free time to speak with us and who actually wanted to learn more, rather than forcing someone to sit through a presentation. For our table we printed out photos ranging from different homeless people on the streets and different statistics about the homeless. Our game was more so trying to gage how much people actually knew about the homeless so we had a series of questions written on one side of the paper with the answer on the back. Then we would ask them to guess what the answer would be to see how much they knew about homelessness before we flipped the card over for the answer and informed them even more about the answer. Our two biggest questions that we had people answer were “What do you think is the main cause of homelessness?” and “If you see a homeless person on the street, even they were simply napping what number do you call?” We also had other questions, but these were the two most popular questions that gathered the most response and largest attraction from the people we spoke with. When we asked people if they knew what number to call if they see a homeless person most either said 911 or said they had no idea. When we told them about the “511” number most people were surprised and no idea that number existed in the San Bernardino County. I personally think this was my favorite part of teaching people because I remember when the police officers taught us this I was so taken back and had no idea. It is such a simple number to remember, so if we taught them anything during our teaching project and if only one thing stuck with them I truly hope it was this number. Now when we asked people what they thought was the main cause of homelessness, most people naturally said drugs. We actually had over 10 people say drugs, the most out of any other category. I have to say though, that before taking this class I probably would have said the same answer had someone asked me. The next most popular answer was mental illness, and people assuming that mental illness is what led to people being homeless. My favorite answer we received though, that didn’t just simply scratch the surface, was one person saying the leading causes of homelessness is because of food deserts, bad government funding, and expensive education (college). These answers were all interesting to here because I believe if we would have taken a poll at the beginning of the semester in our class about what we thought were the main causes of homelessness each of us would have had similar answers. The overall experience of this assignment was rather rewarding. This assignment allowed to me to reflect on how I kind of was and the way I was thinking about the homeless when I first began this class. Some of the students had surprising guesses to our questions, while others had really surprising things to say about the homeless. Everyone has different opinions in regards to the homeless, but overall I believe we had a fairly good response rate. Students were engaged and wanted to actually hear about what we had to say.