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How to sustain service work when the problems feel insurmountable

I have been teaching in low-income schools for twenty years and I love my students but I am exhausted by the poverty I cannot fix.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Witnessing systemic injustice daily without power to address root causes creates a unique form of moral exhaustion.

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