New: the Homelessfonts
This is quite brilliant idea based on the handwritten cardboards no one reads. The Spanish Arrels foundation, in partnership with the advertising agency The Cyranos McCann, presents Homelessfonts.org,...
View ArticleWhy are houses collapsing in Egypt?
EIPR, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, recently launched an interactive website egyptbuildingcollapses.org which visualises data and analysis gathered over the course of one year, July...
View ArticleLearn to code to escape homelessness
Canada’s largest homeless youth agency Covenant House was in need of a poster to let youth know about a free course they could take to learn to code. The idea was to relate to their situation and...
View ArticleTheir cardboard story could be ours
Rethink Homelessness, an Orlando-based advocacy group, asked their homeless friends to write down a fact about themselves that other people wouldn’t know just by walking past them. The answers are...
View ArticleGuilt tactics that work in this campaign from the Salvation Army
“We’re too developed, too wealthy, and too kind-hearted a country to allow poverty to affect any of us.” This 2014 summer campaign from the Canadian Salvation Army is about guilt, and that is a tactic...
View ArticleYoung people who learn the hard way
A powerful new film from the UK’s Princes Trust, asking people to think again about employing young people from difficult backgrounds. The ad is backed by a LinkedIn profile, set up to represent a...
View ArticleHaircuts Transform Homeless
The people from Toolbox Productions went to skid row in downtown LA and gave out free haircuts to a few homeless. What’s The Difference between you and them is the question asked after the...
View ArticleGimme Shelter: Made to resist inequality
Spring is coming but Winter has been hard for those living on the streets. In Spain, non-profit organization Acción Humanitatis is providing a new kind of shelter with a garment created by costume...
View ArticleHomeless people read mean tweets
Watch as people living with homelessness read mean tweets about homelessness. Be careful not to lose faith in humanity. What I learned from Mark Horvath, the man behind Invisible People, is that anyone...
View ArticleHelp the homeless on their period #TheHomelessPeriod
Homeless women have limited or no access to sanitary products like tampons and towels. Oli, Josie, and Sara, interns who met at a London advertising agency were shocked by this fact and started...
View ArticleCelebrate 20 Years of Sobriety with Combating Homelessness
If you know Mark Horvath then there is nothing else to say than watch the video above and donate. Because it’s worth every penny (or dollar cent). Never heard about Mark? Where have you been recent...
View ArticleJust a cup of coffee and a walk
Solving the problem of homelessness takes a while. Why do not we start with just a cup of coffee? Or tea of course. Or a hot meal. It is just that simple. This idea comes from Ritzo ten Cate from the...
View ArticleHomeless people back on their feet with running
I’m very excited about this project. Maybe because I know the feeling of euphoria of running. It was a new world for me when I started two ago, discovering a free spirit through running. That could be...
View ArticleSmart map for homeless people to get through the cold winter days
This copy of the well known underground map from London is reused in perfect way by the Berliner Stadtmission. It’s a shout to all people in Berlin about the circumstances of homeless people in the...
View ArticleReality Christmas cards
What does the idealised Christmas of the middle east really look like? Like these ‘reality christmas cards’ from Doctors of the World, which juxtapose traditional scenes with real press photographs....
View ArticleThe Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness address NIMBYism
This campaign from The Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness (TAEH) was launched last week and received a lot of attention from Canadian national press although it’s a local campaig. Perhaps this is...
View ArticleAt the Salvation Army, they share absolutely everything
In this Christmas spot the Swiss Salvation Army points out again that they help people who lost everything. And you have to take that literally. This is second video from the same Christmas campaign:...
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