The Advocacy Project
The Goal
The goal of this advocacy project about homelessness was to raise awareness about the global issue of homelessness to the public and try to rid people of their previous misconceptions and ideas about the issue of homelessness. In this website we explain what homelessness is defined as, the complicated issues that result in homelessness, the global and local impacts of homelessness, why you should care about the issue of homelessness, and what you can do to help people that are homeless. The ultimate goal of our is to eventually wipe out the causes of homelessness as much as we can and help those people who are currently homeless and in need.
Our Take Action Project
For our take action project portion our group decided that we wanted to give immediate help to those who are homeless. We collected money donations, bought the products we thought as a group would be most helpful to the homeless people we came across, we created care packages, and the final step was distributing them at the 'church under the bridge' service in downtown Austin. The 'church under the bridge' started about twenty years ago providing a safe place every Sunday where those who are currently homeless can congregate in worship and receive breakfast before and lunch after the service. Volunteers come a lot to make food, play music, and most of the time like we did bring care package type things people can take with them. Many of the volunteers come from other churches around Austin to help or from wonderful organizations such as Mission Possible.
You can find more information about Mission Possible at this cite: http://www.mpaustin.org
The goal of this advocacy project about homelessness was to raise awareness about the global issue of homelessness to the public and try to rid people of their previous misconceptions and ideas about the issue of homelessness. In this website we explain what homelessness is defined as, the complicated issues that result in homelessness, the global and local impacts of homelessness, why you should care about the issue of homelessness, and what you can do to help people that are homeless. The ultimate goal of our is to eventually wipe out the causes of homelessness as much as we can and help those people who are currently homeless and in need.
Our Take Action Project
For our take action project portion our group decided that we wanted to give immediate help to those who are homeless. We collected money donations, bought the products we thought as a group would be most helpful to the homeless people we came across, we created care packages, and the final step was distributing them at the 'church under the bridge' service in downtown Austin. The 'church under the bridge' started about twenty years ago providing a safe place every Sunday where those who are currently homeless can congregate in worship and receive breakfast before and lunch after the service. Volunteers come a lot to make food, play music, and most of the time like we did bring care package type things people can take with them. Many of the volunteers come from other churches around Austin to help or from wonderful organizations such as Mission Possible.
You can find more information about Mission Possible at this cite: http://www.mpaustin.org