They Are People Too, Just Like You and I

In my previous post I talked about homelessness and how we should start helping them more. I talked about why I picked this issues and how we should and should not help the people that are currently homeless. I also posted this to show that there’s many different reasons why people become homeless; and not just because of alcohol or drug use. There’s lots of people and organizations like Project HOME, that take time from their day to help those in need. I think organizations like Project Home are doing a great thing; they have people donating things, volunteering; they have housing, Healthcare services, Education, adult education and employment. I decided to do this for my Agent of Change because I felt strongly about helping people, the only thing I could really do is help the people that currently don’t have a place to stay and need our help. So what I did was: I found a person that could help me. We made posters and walked around restaurants asking the managers if they could donate some amount of money for our school project. We went to at least 10 different places but that didn’t work out. So we just went to sit at Rittenhouse. I joked about how Reese should ask random people if they wanted to make a donation, but Reese took the challenge and started asking people. The first people that helped us gave us $5, the next gave us $1, and that is the amount of money people usually gave us. Someone then asked if they could venmo us the money, and we agreed because we realized lots of people now pay through apps on their phones. Then someone venmoned us $20 and we were so happy, we honestly thought this is going to be the most amount of money someone gave us. Later on a man came up to ask and started a conversation and just asked questions, we talked for about 5 minutes and then he left saying that he will venmo us some money. When I checked my phone we couldn’t believe that the man that we met like 5 minutes ago, venmoed us $250. We ran up to him asking if it was maybe a mistake and if he wanted us to venmo him the money back, but he said “Great job guys, never stop!” Reese and I were so happy and grateful. I honestly didn’t think this project would make me this happy, yes I love helping people but when I saw that this man trusted us and gave us that much money, I Knew I would never stop helping the people that need my help.

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