When reading “West Philadelphia” by CEET talks about how it had many hazards such as asthma in children, lead poisoning, chemical exposure from former industrial sites. This is great on how they are helping people find out how to prevent many of the causes. They have been hosting many health fairs to help out kids be aware of their surroundings and maybe alert parents. Philadelphia has 2-3 times higher asthma rates than any other Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. By gathering a lot of staff helps people know how to prevent problems. Been wanting to read much more about the article wondering if they may change in the future. How can this continue from generation to generation? https://create.piktochart.com/output/42378488-untitled-infographic

The West Philadelphia Neighborhood of Powelton Village has one of the highest Lead Risk Scores in the city of Philadelphia due to 88% of this historic neighborhood's homes being built before 1980: when the use of lead paint was banned in the U.S. Along with Juniata, Fairhill, Kensington, University City, and many others, Powelton has a Lead Risk Score above five, a nine, ten being the highest. After looking at the Lead Risk Score Map of Philadelphia, it's honestly very shocking to see how many neighborhoods, including mine, are at such a high risk of lead poisoning. I wonder what precautions and actions we can complete in order to greatly reduce this issue or preferably, completely eliminate it. Many households including mine have new non-lead paint over the old lead paint to conceal it, rather than getting rid of the issue.

My group focus was on Powelton which is apart of West Philly,closer to University city, I had a very surprised reaction on everything I saw and read. Why isn't this talked about everywhere else like the Flint situation. However as we know children and some adults have a very high level of lead in their system and we have to find more ways to prevent this since it could cause many health problems. Most of the city does not know this and it's sad but hopefully land lords and home owners make a change and find solutions to these problems then spread it to family and friends. Lead is terrible when exposed to young children mostly since their brain isnt fully developed and from from our infogram it shows how families have moved and did many changes to get away from these terrible lead levels.

It is crazy to understand that Philadelphia may have the same amount of lead as Flint, MI. How Unfortunate it is that the city is not acknowledging the crisis among us. On the bright side, I know Flint is aware of their lead problems and is attempting to get clean water. In the city of Philadelphia, there are high amounts of lead poisonings, especially in low-income areas like Germantown, Kensington, strawberry mansion and the city nor the health department seem to care unless it is a large problem. The city will not intervene with lead poisoning unless the child poisoned has serious issues pertaining to the poison. In an article, I read, "Their son got lead poisoning and the city treated them like slumlords," it talks about how a family was being sued for trying to clean out a house they were going to rent to other people because the city would not help them clean the lead poisoning. The family has two kids, both had traces of lead in their system and not only that in the courtroom, but it also had high traces of lead as well. Therefore the case was thrown away because "keeping it to code" was the main reason why they were getting sued in the first place. To be honest, I believe the main reason why Philadelphia has high lead in the paint is because of how old the houses are. The houses were there since the industrial era along with several abandoned factories. The lead in the factories could've spread to other houses causes the crisis we have now.

I am aware of what is happening in Philadelphia with many environmental problems and after reading this article. I realized that kids are getting sick every day and aren't realizing it until they get hurt. It's frustrating to know the city isn't doing much to help out the citizens in West Philadelphia. This needs to be solved. Also, the thing is when kids or adults get hurt from lead poisoning or from getting asthma attacks then that’s where people will start noticing but they should have noticed before they started to get hurt and that's not okay. Be aware of things before actions take place.

My group focus was on Powelton which is apart of West Philly but closer to University city. I was very shocked by what I read. I heard about Flint's issue before but I did not really pay it mind because I do not reside there but I wish I did. Our city has very high levels of lead. The things that I found out makes me want to be really careful when going into other people house. Hopefully, the landlords start to take it seriously because it's not only found inside of the paint.

Researching lead was more interesting than I thought it would be. I didn't know that there were laws set in place by the city in regards to helping this problem with lead poisoning. Reading the case that my group had found made me wonder about if I was exposed to lead poisoning in my house, school or any other building that I often find myself in regularly.

While researching lead in the city, what stood out to me was that landlords dont check for these types of things before families move into the homes. Also, the levels of lead is much higher than it should be. My reaction the affect it ad on children is it sad. Something that could have been avoided is affecting their learning abilities now and in the future.

Throughout this assignment, I learned and can relate to a lot of stuff that was going on in the schools. I noticed that a lot of older schools have very bad safety issues. I feel like plenty of schools that we wouldn't even think of have high asbestos levels. All schools should be checked either annually or monthly due to these problems. It'll lower the chances of children getting sick and save their lives. I've gone to a school that was falling apart while we were still in it for about 2 years and if we stayed in there any longer we would have died because of the horrible structure and dangerous asbestos levels.