Community Experience
For my community experience, I focused on poverty and welfare by interviewing Bryant Pankratz, who works for the LDS church Welfare Department. He has been working for the church for over 20 years. The following are my notes from my interview with him: What do you do? - in charge of facility maintenance, repair and construction for welfare based structures in us and Canada: bishop's storehouse, DI, family services (counseling) - obtaining funding for welfare projects (humanitarian for refugees, immunization, disaster (Texas), education projects (adults, refugee children (schools, classes, church works with partners to build schools, train teachers, clean water, wheelchairs, usually the first to respond to disasters, easier in US because of resources. - church works through area offices to help with projects, natural disasters etc. How does the welfare department help people in the states? - natural disasters, refugees, food, homeless support etc. - welfare (package f...