Are you a social journalist wanting to eliminate homelessness?

#HomelessEntrepreneur is giving everything to create more visibility for the homeless and consequently we would like to invite all social journalists to participate in the process of eliminating homelessness. If you are a social journalist and you want to contribute to create more visibility through written action, we encourage you to be part of our team as a social journalist collaborator.

Requirements

  1. Believe that you can help us eliminate homelessness through social journalism.
  2. Writing what you see on the streets is not a job but a way of life.
  3. The principles and ethics of telling what you observe is more important than the editorial line that "you have to follow."
  4. Create your own project to focus your articles in #HomelessEntrepreneur. For ex. "Interviews with homeless people on the street via Periscope," "Why homeless people enter the street," "The perception of homeless people according to citizens."
  5. Share your articles in #HomelessEntrepreneur on your social networks and promote our initiative to help us grow together.

If you think you meet these requirements,  please contact us for an interview .

Hopefully you are part of #HomelessEntrepreneur!

This Week in #HomelessEntrepreneur Images (Week 40)

In order to provide a summary of this week, we will share what we've done in a more visual way. We hope you all like it!

(Week 40) Marcos and I went to Barceloneta to record a special video for a wedding who decided to offer their guests an opportunity to support #HomelessEntrepreneur as a solidarity gift for their wedding.

We went to the Barcelona Nord bus station to create awareness and raise donations for our upcoming trip to Zaragoza during the Fiestas del Pilar.

On our way home, we ran into some young entrepreneurs studying with TeamLabs.

Our "Facing Talent" photographer, David Fischer Baglietto, shared one of his latest photos of a homeless man named Joan Manuel.

Marcos accompanies Xema for his second week and opens up new parts of Barcelona along with the silent stories hidden behind its unseen shadows.

Marcos and a photojournalist collaborating with us, Freddy Davies, wait patiently in Onda Cero's waiting room before entering a program called l'espai Ciutat Solidària run by La Ciutat.

Marcos responds to a question by Albert Lesan and Mònica Günther about his experience with homeless shelters in Barcelona.

Marcos publishes his latest poem called "The Rain," which discusses the hardships of being homeless on rainy days.

That's just a quick summary of week 40! We're looking forward to week 41! If you'd like to help us by volunteering or donating a product or service, please contact us. If you'd like to contribute by donating, you can make a monthly donation via Patreon or via bank transfer: ES78 0081-1699-53-0001058408  

"From doctors to film academies"

Today we started with a meeting with  Dr. Álvaro Vives  (expert in andrology) of the  Puigvert Foundation to define his presentation at our #TodosDurmiendoEnLaCalle event for November 11th.

In addition to talking about sexual health and its relevance to the homeless, he will offer a quick free HIV test to homeless people who want to take the test. The results are presented in only 15 minutes but Dr. Vives will speak with each homeless person who makes the test at the end of the conference in the street intimately.

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Then I stayed with Marcos at the exit of the Artigas i Sant Adrià subway where a family member who has not seen us in 2 years lives and we walked to  the Adama association  to talk to Mari Luz and Oscar who accompanied us to a class of Marcel with 3 students who live in shelters currently. We listen to their presentations and then we introduce ourselves. Two hours flew until we had to go.

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Marcos went to visit his family and I went running to a meal with the photographer,  Jose Sanabria , and two members of the  Iberoamerican Academy of Ciné Independiente  to talk about how we can create more visibility for the homeless. One of the people in the food has to play the role of an ex-executive who ended up on the street and I hope to visit the shoot to support her. Just before the lights went out while we talked, they invited me to their  Solidarity Event in Luz de Gas . After lunch, we said goodbye and went to Daps to devote myself to social networks a little bit and promote the next event of  #TodosDurmiendoEnLaCalle . And finally I received a message from a collaborator,  Joseba of Bilbao, that I was able to launch the first post of the new blog.

That's how one day of #HomelessEntrepreneur has been  .

We are working hard to raise the first € 1,000 in Patreon to create a grant from the same citizens that will be used to create work for 1 homeless person every 6-8 months. We invite you to help us accelerate the process of eliminating homelessness by making the contribution that comes your heart from € 1 per month. Click here to make a donation .

Thank you very much to all who have read the first article! We hope that you share it on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and / or wherever you want to create more visibility for the homeless. "If you want to help the homeless, make them visible."

All the best,
Andrew Funk

President of #HomelessEntrepreneur