Our Main goal is to improve Quality of Life for everyone. Start Right Enterprises is a Non Profit Inc. helping families with car & truck repair/service, housing repairs, small/FAMILY- business development to create sustainable, local jobs, youth/educational centers including automotive service training. Improve impoverished communities by remodeling the run down buildings and turning them into com
munity centers.. offering many services including auto repair, counseling such as life coaching, early and continued education and spiritual counseling. FOUNDED IN 2006 BY : Dr. Cassandra A Page, D.D. Mission:
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty, assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. Many families have no home or running car at all, or no money to repair their home or vehicle. They may feel like they are stuck in a rut and begin to lose hope, as do so many these days that live as slaves to the dollar. We will help provide
1) AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR AND SERVICE --
Many in our area who are low or no income cannot legally drive because of many reasons. Some include expired inspection sticker. Usually this is due to repairs needed, anything from tires, brakes fluid leaks, poor engine performance, and emissions systems. Not being legal will keep families from working or looking for work, obtaining proper education, healthcare, and can lead to general depressions and poverty. This new Automotive Division of SRE is very close at heart to our Founder, DR. Cassandra A. Page, D.D. who knows firsthand the effects on life and future when one cant legally drive, and has no reliable transportation.
2) New single/multi Family home construction, REMODELING, and REPAIR.
-- services include bathroom and plumbing facility improvement, updated kitchen and hvac services (to improve Health through food, family meal time, energy efficiency improvement throughout to include HVAC systems with electronic air cleaners built in to ductwork, providing cleaner home environment, safer for children and those with respiratory illness. Other repairs include Termite repair, foundation repair, keeping homes up to code.
--- In areas where it is legal to do so, if a family wishes to start a community automotive shop, if space is available, to create a 2 bay 1 lift mini shop, for the family and neighborhood to maintain their vehicles properly .. giving the family a chance to make income, start a business that provides a needed community service, and again, keeping families legal and the air cleaner.. using less gas for themselves, and their neighbors. One home like this per every neighborhood, 100 people, or 35 families.. would be sufficient for simple services, keeping money local and helping eachother.
3) help others find work or start a family business (to provide jobs in the community) by helping Parents define which Talents can be marketed, either in their own community or city / state wide. OUR OTHER FOCUSES FOR LONG TERM GOALS INCLUDE
4) fix up large areas of (any) town with abandoned buildings that are dangerous and help the community grow by helping the people, and the businesses, in the area by creating community centers which teach individual and Family Internal sustainability. Education to include Growing your own food, water purification, Healthy motives in MIND BODY AND SOUL.. Life coaching and goal implementation, small-Business start up education and Consulting, Counseling to include Marriage, Mental Health pertaining to depression, Taxes, Spiritual Counseling. at each center childcare, athletics, and business center services, community job force department and more.
---- Future projects to include large high rise building conversion to self sufficient home/school/grocery community Condos... that were once abandoned and dangerous. Each should include a small garage/shop with 2-5 mechanical Lifts for auto maintenance and repair services, Only tenants can work there and get service there. All tenants would have the option to trade services or goods instead of using money. Of course, a transitional facility may be needed, as we are not taking drug addicted homeless people off the streets and throwing them in there. This would be individuals or families actively searching for help and show a dire need, who in the end learn that when others in need offer what help they can, in many diff ways, all needs are met. THE COMMUNITY; ONCE IMPOVERISHED, IS NOW FULL OF EMPOWERED HUMANS, NO LONGER SLAVES TO THEIR PREVIOUS ECONOMIC STATUS.
5)Provide or create Educational centers for children in impoverished areas at no cost in support of the HEAD START programs which is not accessible in many areas. Children's needs are best met by grown-ups whose needs are met.
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” ―Ellen Goodman
We want those we help to continue to teach and help others about self sustainability. The local community is the SELF which they are all a part of. The main goal is improvement of all Quality of Life, not just of those we counsel, but for the effect it will have on those we counsel for it to spread, to all living things be it human or animal.
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Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only" The idea here is that a human being, as a rational agent endowed with self-awareness, free will, and the possibility of formulating a plan of life, has an inherent dignity and cannot properly be treated as a mere thing, or used against his will as an instrument or resource in the way an inanimate object might be.But if individuals are inviolable ends-in-themselves and self-owners, they have certain rights, in particular rights to their lives, liberty, and the fruits of their labor
Release the Potential
Democracy and hunger cannot go together. A hungry stomach questions and censures the system's failure to meet what are basic biological needs of every human being. There can be no place for hunger and poverty in a modern world in which science and technology have created conditions for abundance. Robert Nozick created what he calls the Tale of the Slave, its very brief and it goes through 9 basic stages. The question is: which transition from case 1 to case 9 made it no longer the tale of a slave? https://web.duke.edu/philsociety/taleofslave.html
TRANSPORTATION AND SHELTER - The Need
The income per capita in Conroe is 6.4% less than the Texas average and 16.9% less than the National average. The poverty level in Conroe is 8.5% greater than the Texas average and 57.4% greater than the National average. The average travel time to work in Conroe is equal to the Texas average and equal to the National average. The number of people who take public transportation in Conroe is 11% less than the Texas average and 80.2% less than the National average. The number of people who carpool to work in Conroe is 35.3% greater than the Texas average and 63.4% greater than the National average. The number of people who work from home in Conroe is 41.9% less than the Texas average and 50.6% less than the National average. Poverty is not just about numbers. It is about parents who cannot feed their children in or who are unable to bring sick or disabled children to a doctor in the United States. It is about the devastating consequences of addiction and family violence, and about "no-parent families" in the United States. This is not about having a new car or about how fast you can get on the Internet; rather, this is about having a decent place to live, enough to eat, clean water, and clean air in your community. Initially and usually most permanently, ONE MUST WORK TO PROVIDE , for either cash or service/good trade. To work for a GOOD salary, one must be educated. THIS MEANS YOU MUST HAVE TRANSPORTATION TO SCHOOL AND WORK. To search for work, children to the learning and care centers, balancing a family of 4 with differrent places of work and education is impossible in the Conroe area without a legal, running car/truck/ or van. This is about the virtues we practice in our own lives and the values we promote in public life. And this is about whether there is a place at the table for all in our communities, nation, and world. These people are not just statistics; they are sisters and brothers, members of our one human family. But statistics can indicate the magnitude of the problem and the urgency of the task. As we enter the twenty-first century,
More than half of the world's population lives on less than two dollars a day. More than 1.2 billion people live on less than one dollar a day. Almost 800 million people across the globe, most of them children, live with hunger or malnutrition as a regular fact of life. They live in desperate poverty, which means they die younger than they should, struggle with hunger and disease, and live with little hope and less opportunity for a life of dignity. But poverty is not limited to the poorest countries. In our own nation, poverty is also persistent and pervasive. Clearly, it is experienced in different ways in different places. In the United States, thirty-four million people live below the official poverty line (i.e., $17,960 for a family of four). If all these people lived in one state, its population would be larger than the combined current populations of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Idaho, Iowa, and Arizona. CONROE TEXAS:
Population in Poverty 12,794 22.86%,
Family in Poverty 2,474 18.79%,
Number of households with income < $10k:
Conroe: 3.5% (171) State: 10.3% (257,793)
Number of households with income $10-20k:
Conroe: 17.9% (870) Texas: 16.1% (403,959)
Number of households with income $20-30k
Conroe: 20.3% (984) State:15.9% (400,013)
TRANSPORTATION
Workers 16 Years and Over 25,955 100%
Car, Truck, or Van—Drove Alone 18,255 70.33%,
Car, Truck, or Van—Carpooled 5,803 22.36%,
Public Transportation 197 0.76%,
Walked 420 1.62%,
Other Means 500 1.93%,
Worked at Home 780 3.01%,
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Conroe-Texas.html
The younger you are in our country, the more likely you are to be poor. More than 15 percent of our preschoolers are growing up poor.9 Discrimination, lack of opportunity, and economic injustice make poverty worse, especially for those in racial and ethnic communities and for persons with disabilities. Signs of Hope
These stories and numbers should not immobilize us. They should call us to prayer, reflection, and action. This is not "one more thing to feel bad about," but rather an opportunity to put our faith into action, to be the "leaven" in society, to lift up the virtues and ethical principles that enhance human dignity. We can make a difference if we mobilize to combat poverty, because we have done so in the past. Each of us has many opportunities in our everyday livesto make choices that help or harm those who are most vulnerable. In our families, we can make time to serve those in need and to become involved in efforts that promote justice. We can raise our children with an ethic of service and a passion for justice. As workers, owners, and managers, WE should contribute to a workplace that is safe and respectful, where workers have a voice and can earn enough to support themselves and their families. As consumers and as investors, we can support businesses that contribute to the common good, treat workers fairly, and do not exploit the poor and vulnerable. As consumers, we can also live more simply so that there might be enough at the table for all. As faithful citizens, we should take seriously our responsibilities to vote and to voice our convictions in support of public policies that defend human life and promote the human dignity of all, especially the poor and vulnerable. No consideration of the problems associated with development could fail to highlight the direct link between poverty and unemployment. In many cases, poverty results from a violation of the dignity of human work, either because work opportunities are limited (through unemployment or underemployment), or “because a low value is put on work and the rights that flow from it, especially the right to a just wage and to the personal security of the worker and his or her family.
“Poverty is not merely the lack of adequate financial resources. It entails a
more profound kind of deprivation, a denial of full participation in the eco-
nomic, social, and political life of society and an inability to influence deci-
sions that affect one’s life.... Therefore we should seek solutions that ena-
ble the poor to help themselves through such means as employment”
There are a total of 138 Conroe police officers. This results in 2.5 police officers per 1,000 residents which is 11.9% less than the Texas average and 10.2% less than the National average. Did you know? Conroe is safer than 18.4% of the cities in the nation. The crime rate in Conroe is less than 19% of the cities in Texas. The chance of being a victim of a crime in Conroe is 1 in 26. The chance of being a victim of a violent crime in Conroe is 1 in 296. The chance of being a victim of a property crime in Conroe is 1 in 28. he Conroe population was 56,207 in 2012 compared to 36,660 in 2000. The Conroe, TX population has increased by 53.3% from 2000 to 2012. In Conroe 67% of the people speak English and 31% of people speak Spanish, also in Conroe 57.2% of people are married.
