connecting*the*dots

(listen to Melissa tell her story)

Head First Slide

Goals of this project include:

• exposing the greater community to the faces, voices and personalities of individuals experiencing homelessness and drug addiction–to increase awareness and understanding;
• building a supportive community both from and for the two groups of people who have collaborated on this project;
• providing encouragement for individual, long-term goals created by the participants;
• enabling the greater community to invest in the lives of project participants; and finally
• establishing a more permanent audience for the participants through this website and individual email addresses

Once we get The People, Yes off its training wheels, I’m looking forward to teaming up with people like the good folk at Ink Tank.

What a creative way to both humanize and enable people, simultaneously.

We’re meeting our first prospective writer sometime this week (right, CM?). If we can turn out a platform half as interesting as this project, Greensboro’s underprivileged will no doubt be heard, and hopefully, become accepted contributors to this town’s vibrant conversations — both online and off.

(found via Neatorama)