Lauren

The settlement house was a big help for many workers. It was some what like public ad is now. This movement has helped many people around the world. giving them a nbetter chance at surviving in the world. This movement begun in britain. In order to be apart of this movement they would jhacve to live in poor neighborhoods so that they could be a wittness of the poverty first hyand. Jane adams and several others bou=ght the run-down mansion and opened the doors to many immigrants. At first Starr and Addams simply wanted to get to know there neighbors. But then begin responding to the community as a whole.

Ovver the couse of many years, Addams and Starr turned hull House into a community activity cenetr. Hull House offered cutural events, classes, display ehibits of craft from their home countries. Also included set up child care centers, playgrounds, clubs, and summer camps for boys and girls, offices to deal with peoples leagal problems and health care centers. Henry Street Settlement, founded by Lillian Wald on New York's Lower East Side, Origanally a nurses settlement offers home health care for the poor. Missinaries also found settlement houses, to gain coverts but also to apply the social gospel in practical ways.

There were more than 400 settlement houses in the 1910. Most settlement houses were supported by donations and voulunteers willing to work for little wages and free room and board. Hundreds of college graduate,especially women kind of ditched there other perfessions to becom a settlement worker. Most workers spent only a couple of years at these jobs because they moved onto professional jobs. Little never forgot there wonderful experience at the settlement houses. The reason why most of them did this was because they loved the fact that they were helping the poor and unfortunate and by doing that that made them feel better.