Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Invisible People: Raising Awareness


Meet Gerardo.  His own family turned him away as a teenager because he is gay.  It's hard to imagine a church rejecting someone in need, but apparently this is a common experience for LGBT youth who find themselves on the street.  

Invisible People (dot) TV wants you to see the faces and know the lives of homeless people.  From the site:

On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God; “Why did you permit this? Why don’t you do something about it?” For a while God said nothing. That night he replied, quite suddenly:
“I certainly did something about it. I made you.”

2 comments:

  1. This might be of interest of you: http://playspent.org

    McKinney’s SPENT is an immersive online experience that challenges gamers and non-gamers alike to survive poverty and see first-hand that homelessness is just a shortfall away

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  2. Hi, Sara! Thanks for your visit and comment. I'll check this out. :-)

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