Social Work person I admire: Mary Richmond

Hello dear readers, today I will tell you about the top representative of Social Work, the outstanding Mary Richmond. 

She was born on August 5, 1861 in Belleville, Illinois . Her parents died when Mary was 3 years old, along with her three siblings due to tuberculosis, forcing her to live with her grandmother and aunts in Baltimore, Maryland . She was the second oldest child of Henry Richmond, a carriage blacksmith, and Lavinia Harris Richmond, daughter of a prominent Baltimore, Maryland jeweler and real estate broker. Mary revolutionized the way that there had been up to that time to help the neediest people, turning that help into a profession, since she thought that it was time to look for the causes that had led people to their situation of poverty, in order to eradicate them and promote their independence. She is very important because she contributed a lot to the profession, because she was the woman who formalized the techniques, contents, system and theory of Social Work. I admire her because she is a woman fighter, who despite having had a difficult life achieved all her goals, she also had a brilliant mind and contributed great techniques to Social Work. 

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