Homeless Email
21 05 2007
I spoke with a homeless married couple today in Boston Common. The gentleman asked me for some food, while I was on the phone. We ate together, and he told me the story that brought he and his wife onto the street.
When we finished our meal, I signed onto my Starbucks wireless account. We looked up resources for the homeless in Boston. Then he gave me his email address and promised to keep in touch.
Email meant some much more for he and his wife than for many people. Their email was a real address—something that belonged to them, which they checked from the public library, and which let them more fully participate in the world.
Related Reading:
- Laptops give hope to homeless.
- Internet Access and Use Among Homeless and Indigent Drug Users in Long Beach.
- Curbside Internet for the Homeless:
- The Homeless Nation is Canada’s only website created by and for Homeless Canadians. Through a national network of outreach workers,
- If you’ve ever been homeless–or are now–here’s a new list just for you. It spans three continents and a range of worldviews and backgrounds.
- Hope and Help for the Homeless.
Freakout. Zachary, on the walk back to the T I saw a homeless man (i think. pretty sure.) on a cell phone. same idea, different tech.
Great, sensitive, perceptive post. Nice to meet you.
Laura
Hey Zach! You might be interested in:
http://thehomelessguy.wordpress.com/
He’s been blogging for years, sometimes with some really interesting stuff.
~Jay