#teamaok For those of you that have just joined our page since my arrival in Daytona, here is my story: Homeless and Hungry, Inc. was organically born in July 2014 from overwhelming Facebook support of a Summer Reading Program I developed. I was teaching at a highly impoverished school and wanted a way to keep my Middle School Students reading and writing over the Summer. To accomplish this, I decided to go voluntarily homeless for 30 days on the streets of Orlando and blog about it on Facebook. I figured my students would learn empathy for the homeless and at the same time read and write about my experiences. Unexpectedly, in the first 10 days of my project over 120,000 people were viewing my posts! The decision to go voluntarily homeless has resulted in my life being changed forever. As a result of my journey, I learned that homelessness is a complex problem and very few people know the accurate facts about the issue. I have now completed an extensive review of every piece of available research and what I have discovered is shocking! This knowledge has now prompted me to become a full time “Homelessness Educator”. I believe public awareness and empathy for citizens who are homeless are the keys to solving the problem.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:24:48 +0000
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