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Cheryl Miller on Overcoming Poverty in America [PovertyCure Voices]

Cheryl Miller, the Executive Director of Perpetual Help Home (a PovertyCure Partner) shares her story of overcoming poverty in America with the help of people who affirmed her dignity and value. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: "The idea of the message of PovertyCure, to me, it's even more personal than our work as an organization or our movement in our community. I think it boils down to individuals. I was talking to some people this morning about my own personal journey and why I do what I do with women, and ... um ... [becoming choked up with emotion]. It's been a long time. It's been a really long time, but 26 years ago I was a welfare mom, and I have two children that were born into the welfare system. And fortunately for me, the people who got engaged in my life were people who understood the principles that are embraced in the message of PovertyCure. They understood that I didn't need to be fixed and I didn't need handouts. That I needed to be challenged and I needed to be pushed, and I needed to take control of my own life. And I did. And I went back to school, because I knew that my children wouldn't have a future if I couldn't do something to move past the economic situation. And it wasn't even the economics; it was the whole sense of hopelessness. So I went back to school and I got my degree and I became a teacher, but then I felt like it's time to do something different. And when I got to working the first week at Perpetual Help Home, and I walked in and I saw the women and I heard their stories, and recognized them, I realized I was just looking at the past me. And I went home and I told my husband, this is what I'm supposed to do. This resonates in my soul, and I don't want to be a part of any message that doesn't recognize the dignity of who these women are, and I don't want to be a part of saying, "I have what you need and I can fix you." I want to be a part of building something and being part of a message that says, "We recognize that you have something significant to offer. We recognize that you were created in the image of God, and we want to provide you the opportunity to live that in the fullest extent possible." And to me, that's what the PovertyCure message really symbolizes, is that recognizing the individual person, whether it's the women in our community, somewhere across the country, or even me, and I'm still in that process of transformation, 26 years later." Visit the PovertyCure Voices page for more videos: http://povertycure.org/voices ___________________________________________________________ Cheryl Miller is the Executive Director of Perpetual Help Home, a housing ministry for women and children. For the past twelve years, she has helped the small housing program evolve with multiple programs including the newest innovation of The Center for Peace, a quantum enterprise run by the clients of PHH. She is also a volunteer mediator for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Victim/Offender Mediation Dialogue program, facilitating meetings between victims of violent crime and offenders. This position has allowed Cheryl to understand the power of reconciliation in the most extreme circumstances. Those reconciliation practices have been integrated into work at Perpetual Help Home. Cheryl holds a Master of Arts Interdisciplinary Studies in Nonprofit Leadership and Communication from the University of Houston-Victoria. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education. Before college, Cheryl was a single mother with two children born into the welfare system. Because of her past circumstances, she knows first-hand how the grace of Christ, found among a Christian community, can turn someone's life around. PovertyCure is an international coalition of organizations and individuals committed to entrepreneurial solutions to poverty that challenge the status quo and champion the creative potential of the human person. http://www.PovertyCure.org   / povertycure     / povertycure     / povertycure