Crystal is not asking for this, but if you feel like mailing something to the family, please see the Salvation Army address also in the Updates section. FRONTLINE presents audio versions of select full-length episodes for listening on the go. To help all three families (not just Shawn's family) featured in the documentary, please go to the London-based Aletheia Foundation: or email Kate at. Americas premier investigative documentary series since 1983. It was filmed on Wednesday, November 11, 2020. Scroll down to "Updates" to see the video clip. Please see a video of the family - Shawn, Edward, Dior and Crystal (mom) - thanking this community for your love and support. Please consider contributing what you can. Crystal is currently working at the Salvation Army but needs to find more work to save for a home and college tuition in the long-term - and get a professional certification in the short-term. The PBS Frontline documentary, Growing Up Poor in America (2020), produced by Jezza Neumann and Lauren Santucci, manifest the experience of growing up poor in America through the eyes of the children. This film had such a hold on me that I snooped around and made contact with Crystal and got her permission to start this Go Fund Me page. Watch the documentary and I bet you too will be touched by how Shawn and his mother, Crystal, recover from illness and tragedy. I could not get over how this teenager was so wise, brave, and decent in spite of his circumstances. I also grew up in the Midwest and was immediately drawn to 13-year-old Shawn, who was most prominently featured in the film. This 53-minute special by acclaimed director, Jezza Neumann, follows the children of families living in poverty. I first learned about the family when I happened to watch the PBS Frontline documentary, "Growing Up Poor in America." It was filmed in The Plains, Ohio in March 2020 just as Covid-19 was taking hold. Please join me in helping Crystal and her three children. Please help us all stand United and help pay for this young mans send off to heaven.Hi friends. RIP Roger, you were a great kid, an inspiration to many and you will be greatly missed. We feel honoured to have been able to at least capture some of his great qualities on film and that through the films we have made together he has inspired others to look at kids growing up in poverty in a different light. Director Jezza Neumann, who made 2012s Poor Kids, once again delves. When you have little in life, family becomes so much more important and we know he will leave a massive whole in the hearts of those he has left behind. Their families were already struggling to make ends meet. We truly believed Roger was going to work his way out of a life of poverty and struggle but sadly it was not to be. I don’t think it’s a good way to be growing up. this one-hour documentary offers a unique perspective on the nations flagging economy and the impact of unemployment, homelessness and poverty as seen through the eyes of the children affected. If you are in the USA please watch “Poor Kids” and you will see for yourself what an amazing brother he was to Zak and Brittany, his dad’s best mate and was still his mum’s gentle giant. America’s Poor Kids meets three children whose families are struggling to get by. The irony of this is that when we saw him recently Lauren and Jezza encouraged him to get his licence so he’d have more independence and job oppourtunities, never thinking for a minute that it would end his life. Roger, who took part in “Frontline Poor Kids” and more recently an updated version, was killed when his car hit ice and rolled. Last night an amazing young man lost his life in a car accident. With more than one in six of the nation’s children living below the poverty level, the film gives an unforgettable perspective on the impact of unemployment, foreclosure and financial distress through the eyes of the children directly impacted. Watch Poor Kids for the full story on how these children’s lives are now unfolding. “If you fall, you gotta get up, dust it off and keep on going,” says Johnny, now 19 and living with his grandmother on the south side of Chicago. “No matter what I go through, I’ll still, like, wanna try and try and try to be better,” says Brittany, now 15. Where are Kaylie, Johnny, Jasmine, Brittany, and their families today? Scattered across the country and still struggling - but still persisting. “Life is gonna be hard because there is hardly gonna be any jobs left in the future.” The documentary, Growing Up Poor in America, follows three children and their families in the battleground state of Ohio as the COVID-19 pandemic. Then there’s nine-year-old Brittany, whose mother learned she was expecting another baby shortly after the family lost their home: “The baby’s future is gonna be weird and messed up,” Brittany said.
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