I lay in my bed and see the people on the street. My imagination goes wild. What might it be like to be one living on the street? To have no cool place to lay my head at night. No shelter from the storms that come. To have no privacy, no real space to call my own, no...
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the mini-fridge
I stand up and stretch my legs for a moment. I need to do it more often, because having a desk job like mine can easily result in poor circulation (causing a whole bunch of other health problems). Somehow I feel like staring at the computer monitor for too long is...
i’m spent [a homeless experiment]
Over 14 million Americans are unemployed. Now I'm one of them. My savings are gone. I've lost my house I'm a single parent And I'm down to my last $1,000 I'm not sure I can make it through the month... I go to find a job, but there's nothing available in my field. It...
the land of no birthdays
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you all .... Happy birthday to you! As we sang these familiar words, tears formed in the woman's eyes. But it's not my birthday, she said. I gently responded to her, That's okay. Today we're celebrating...
[study] social media has made teens more aware of needs of others
According to a new 30 Hour Famine study, almost half (44 percent) of American...
selling a spiderman kite
They were literally everywhere! One thing that certainly stands out as we...
poverty [not just a third-world problem]
People go to bed hungry every night, and it's easy to see it in third-world...
[the 72 project] churches, zoos, and salt shakers
It is not a habit of mine to sugarcoat things. Every time I write one of these...
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