Wednesday 30 May 2018

            The house that Jane built


Jane Addams was a little girl that lived in an elegant house in Chicago. When she was six years old she understood that not everyone lived like her so she vowed that one day she would in a horrid little house and she would find a way to fix the world. 
She loved reading and she also graduated but when she finished school she didn't know what to do with her live and after a month her father died.
After two years she went to London with her friends and she saw a lot of poor people that had nothing. So she decided to find a place to help poor people, a settlement house like Toynbee hall. Jane find the perfect house in Chicago in one of the wort neighborhood in the city. So she bought this house and called it Hull House to thanks the mistress. She opened the house and she decided to leave Hull house unlocked for all the people.
Risultati immagini per the house that jane built
In the house it didn't go always very well bat Jane find always a solution. In the house there wasn't running water to bathe so she created a public bathe. She created also a playground for children and during the morning she started a kindergarten. That house changed the life of million people and today in America there are a lot of community and thay have Jane Addams to thank.

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