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A Day in Rags |
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Eliminating Extreme Poverty |
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| Affiliate: | Southeast |
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| Location: | Tallahassee |
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| Created: | 2/22/2010 |
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| Last Update: | 5/19/2010 |
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Project Goal: Our goal is to spread awareness of the growing homeless population in our community, and to dismiss many common myths about homelessness-- through our website and documentary film.
Root Cause: The homeless are often thought as drunks and drug addicts who wasted their life away, when in fact most of the homeless population is no different than you or I. These myths surrounding the homeless create a segregating aura which makes most people feel afraid or distant, much like if the person they were standing next to was an alien or criminal.
Project Plan: We hope to separate our film into three slices:
1) General Information, Introductions, Myths, etc.
2) Interviews with different homeless people-- What they did before they became homeless? How they became homeless? How they have faired living in a world where they are segregated and misunderstood.
3) Homeless Simulations where we dress up in rags and ask for food or money and where we sleep in a park in order to gain an understanding of what it is like to be homeless. |
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