One Step Away Winter 2018: The Birthday Issue

ONE STEP AWAY WINTER 2018 $ 5 THE BIRTHDAY ISSUE

In honor of our 9 years as Philadelphia's street paper, we wanted to celebrate all of our accomplishments, and create a magazine to help our vendors earn more money so they can truly break the cycle of homelessness. As a newspaper, vendors earned 75 cents from each paper sold. Over the past 9 years basic living expenses have increased, and 75 cents does not get you very far these days. We want to help provide our vendors with the best opportunities for success, and stay current in our constantly changing society. To do this we created the One Step Away magazine.Wehope you enjoy the new format, and will continue to support us as we prepare for the future.

Help us create meaningful and dignified income opportunities for people in need by making a tax-deductible donation today. Use the enclosed envelope.Everydonation you make to One Step Away "in honor of your vendor" will provide free magazines for your vendor. We thank you for your support over the last 9 years, and we hope you will join us as we continue to grow and expand One Step Away.

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The new price point allows our vendors to continue to benefit from selling the magazine throughout the city, and allows the program to grow and continue to be an open opportunity and second chance for our neighbors in need.

CELEBRATING OUR VENDORS Every day our vendors put on their yellow vests and hit the streets distributing One Step Away. Our vendors work hard to earn the money they need to support themselves, to meet their basic necessities, to overcome homelessness, or to afford rent so they do not experience homelessness again. Why did you change to a magazine?

What does One Step Away's future look like? We are focused on remaining a no-barrier income opportunity for anyone in need, while supporting vendors and providing them with the skills they need to succeed. We hope to create internal vendor positions and promotions, while building our community and business partnerships with a goal of finding stable employment opportunities for our vendors. WHY A MAGAZINE?

Is One Step Away’s content changing? While we are moving to a new format, we will still continue to provide solutions oriented, community focused, and vendor driven content that you have come to expect. While adding some new sections to engage more of the community. Why is One Step Away now $5?

As we celebrate our 9th year, we want to create more opportunities for our vendors and our community to succeed — but we need your help. Together we can continue to empower people as they work to overcome homelessness. Will you join us by investing today?

We're turning 9 — yes, all of us! Because without you, we wouldn't exist. In honor of our 9th birthday we created a special magazine edition. We hope you are just as excited as we are to celebrate our 9th year, and we hope you enjoy our new look and layout. To celebrate this milestone, we've added new sections and features — including "Your Say" — because we know that it takes the whole community to address the issues of homelessness and poverty. We are incredibly lucky to have such a supportive and caring community. As a street paper, we truly believe that everyone is one step away. And thanks to your support, many of our vendors have taken the next step to overcoming homelessness. Every time you buy an issue of One Step Away you help a vendor get one step closer to achieving their goals. Because of you, last year 62% of our vendors overcame homelessnes. You create meaningful and dignified income opportunities for individuals in need when you support One Step Away. Thank you for providing us a hand-up, and not just a hand-out. When you support One Step Away you empower our vendors to rebuild their lives, self-esteem, and community. And your support truly changes lives: because for 82% of our vendors One Step Away is their only source of income.

OSAPHILLY.ORG 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS BIRTHDAY SPECIAL 6 VENDORS' FAVORITE SONGS 8 REPICTURING HOMELESSNESS 12 VOLUNTEER & SHOP LOCALLY 16 REFUGEES IN AMERICA 18 STREET CAT BOB-FULNESS 24 UNCOVERED ISSUES 26 POETRY 29 PUZZLES 31 THE MAGAZINE VENDORS BUY EACH COPY FOR $1.50 AND DISTRIBUTE THEM FOR $5, KEEPING ALL OF THE PROFITS! Every purchase of the One Step Away Magazine creates meaningful income and personal growth opportunities for individuals homelessnessexperiencingorpoverty. HELP OUR VENDORS WORK THEIR WAY OUT OF HOMELESSNESS. 1812 24 One Step Away is a program of Resources for Human Development (RHD), a certified 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. www.rhd.org. We are a member of the International Network of Street Papers (INSP), helping 27,000 vendors earn an income each year. www.insp.ngo OUR AFFILIATIONS

It is hard to believe that this publication has been around for nine years. Time seems to have flown right by. There have been many a business that has started and then folded in two or three years. It is not expected for some starting businesses to be successful or to stay open for the first three years. It is hard to start a business and to keep a business profitable. I guess it begins with the product that you are selling. Finding a niche market and/ or augmenting a market that already exists, has a lot to do with the success or failure of a start-up company. A good company develops loyal customers whom appreciate the product and continue to purchase this product over the years. The customer is the key component to having a successful business venture. We, at One Step Away, appreciate you, our loyal supporters. Supporters that have purchased and donated to our cause for years, we appreciate your patronage and more importantly, we appreciate your business. Thank You. In order to show you just how much we appreciate your support, we launched this special magazine edition to celebrate our birthday on December 15 of 2018. To say thank you, to you the reader, we are giving you more material, more insights, and more thoughts on the conditions that permeate all of our existence — homelessness. We will feature more diverse subjects about social justice, and focus on highlighting our community. We hope to connect more with you and local businesses in the area by offering new sections. We also have more advertisement space so that your community can know you and your business just as you have grown to know us over the past nine years. Thank You. It is important to note here that we at One Step Away would not have lasted nine years without you, the customer and supporter of our cause. Simply, there isn’t an us if it were not for a you. We appreciate you and hope that you will appreciate us a little bit more by supporting the upcoming magazine, just as you supported the newspaper and once again thank you.

THANK YOU BY: ERIC HAZELWOOD, One Step Away Vendor

CELEBRATING YOU

COULDHOMELESSNESSHAPPEN

HOMELESSNESS IS COMPLEX Homelessness is a complex problem. In addition to traditional government/ nonprofit services, outside the box and creative initiatives are equally important. That’s why I love One Step Away, it fills a need while educating the public. Anything to help it expand and end homelessness would be a worthwhile endeavor.

SELF-WORTH Given how internalized the idea of work and self-worth are in our country, I think creating a mechanism for people to support themselves through work is excellent.

I KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO STRUGGLE I was once homeless, now I work for a homeless shelter. I went back to school, obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services and wanted to give back. I have also worked with the substance abuse population. I know what it is like to be on your own and not to have anything and the struggle it takes to get back on your feet. Plus, I have a sevenyear-old with me and I had to provide for the two of us.

PERSPECTIVESUNIQUE I enjoy the perspectives the paper offers and enjoy having extra copies around to share with guests, clients, and visitors to the community center I work which serves some of the vendors and others in the community experiencing housing instability or deep poverty.

I think that people working their own way out of poverty on their own is one of few ways to succeed in that transition. One Step Away is a rare employment opportunity which seems to meet people where they need to be met on the road to full-time employment.

For those who are willing to stand outside, regardless of weather, to both spread the word and earn some money, I think those are the people who definitely deserve some additional support. While I know that homelessness is the result of many factors, some of which are uncontrollable, I like to see people out and doing something constructive in order to get their lives back on track. To me, those are the ones I have no problem buying a cup of coffee for and providing an extra dollar for the paper.

LOVE & HAPPINESS

I supported a street paper in DC before moving to Philadelphia. I really like the concept. It’s a tangible and sustainable way for people struggling with homelessness to work their way out of it and it also is a great way of raising awareness about homelessness.

As a workingwriter/photographerinsocialservices, I appreciate the mission of One Step Away and the work of the contributors and vendors. I also try to read different outlets to be an informed community member so this is one in my repertoire.

I believe it’s one way to support homeless genuinely looking to turn things around.

From Our Readers submissions must be 100 words or less, contain the writer's full name and home address, and may be edited for clarity or space.

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Supporting human dignity is a game changer. SOCIAL CHANGE Great cause, great paper and content. I think it’s an awesome idea and really helps make a difference. One Step Away changes people’s mindsets when they see people experiencing homelessness being productive and friendly members of society. WORKING YOUR WAY OUT (OR UP!)

I am simply “in love with” the papers, one street vendors, and your cause and mission. The heart of the goodness you represent. The informative materials and the happiness the paper brings to me.

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REBUILDING LIVES I think this is a good way for those who find themselves struggling to rebuild their lives. They are part of something important, they are productive, and they are earning some money for their efforts. I do know of two people who are in this program who have made a point of finding apt. Housing for themselves through this program.

OPPORTUNITIESMEANINGFUL I believe anyone who wants to participate in society by engaging in thosesocialexperienceareandprovidedemploymentmeaningfulshouldbethatopportunity,membersofsocietywhoblessedandfortunatetopluralityhavearesponsibilitytosupportindividuals.

We want to add a permanent “From Our Readers” section. Please help by submitting your thoughts and feedback! One Step Away P.O. Box Philadelphia,63703PA19147 osa@rhd.org @OSAphilly osaphilly.org

GAME CHANGER

GENUINE SUPPORT

TO ANYONE I believe in the idea that any of us could become homeless at any time and giving those experiencing poverty an opportunity to actively change their situation is empowering.

THE BIRTHDAYISSUECELEBRATING9YEARSOFONESTEPAWAY & MANY MORE TO COME

In 1978, George Benson, Grammy winning singer, wrote a song entitled, “Everything Must Change”. This song spoke about, in time, everything changing and nothing remaining the same, over time. This tune was my high school graduation song and has always held a special meaning to me and for me. Over the years, I have changed tremendously as well as many of my readers.Yearafter year holidays go by, birthdays in particular always seem to bring us joy. Christmas and anniversaries put a smile on all of our faces. Which brings us to the big 9 year birthday that this paper, One Step Away, will be celebrating on December 15. This publication will be 9 years old. It is hard to believe that this writer has been with this newspaper since 2011. There was a time where because of my drug and alcohol abuse, which resulted in my homelessness by the way, I couldn’t keep a job for three months. I remember times when I couldn’t even make it to a job interview, let alone a job because of my addictive tendencies. A problem always permeated my existence as a result of my abuse of things and yet here I am still working for this newspaper seven years later and about to receive a promotion to Vendor Representative. Everything must change. Nothing remains the same. Which brings us to the transformation that this publication is trying to put forth. The transformation to a magazine rather than a newspaper. This transformation, in the opinion of this writer, is a wonderful opportunity for everyone involved. From the vendors to all of our much appreciated customers, this is a wonderful opportunity for everyone. There is a cliché which states, “That if nothing changes, then nothing changes.” I believe that and look forward to riding the wave of change, and possibly success, of this publication in the near future. I have already felt the success of this change and we have not published our first magazine yet by being promoted, hired from within and from the status of vendor to Vendor Representative. Thanks Emily and Jim. My transformation from homelessness, to finally having a roof over my head was a difficult but needed one. My transformation from vendor to this new position is a challenging one. My transformation from addict to addict in recovery is a lifelong one. Everything must change, nothing remains the same. Happy Birthday One Step Away. Congratulations on 9 years of success and here’s to many more years of the same. HAPPY BIRTHDAY By Eric Hazelwood

WILLIAMSSYLVIA JUST LIKE YOU KEYSHIA COLE

THORNTONDAMILLA

GOD’S GOT IT J. MOSS Cause God’s Got It. Whatever you’re going through — God’s got it. “Don’t worry about the money in the bank.” He talks about before bringing someone into your life, you got to have God first. And then He will provide certain things in your life. I really like that song.

The song teaches me not to be stagnant, and it teaches me to keep moving and pushing. It gives you a purpose in life — that’s what it means to me. Looking in the mirror, looking in the mirror means we are all one step away.

VENDOR VOICES WHAT DOES YOUR FAVORITE SONG MEAN TO YOU?

The mirror symbolizes a lot of things, just look in the mirror and talk to yourself. I know I talk to myself about a lot of things when I look in the mirror: “damn you look sexy, damn you look good, damn you’re gonna do the damn thing today.” And that’s what I’m talking about, I always talk to God about giving me a safe trip back home. The mirror shows you a lot of things, spiritually, mentally, physically, homelessness, it can be anything.

The song is significant to me because I know when I was using, I couldn’t look in the mirror. The song talks about you looking into the mirror and finding out who you are and what you are in life, period. Now I can look in the mirror since I’m not using anymore — because I used to run past the mirror, back and forth, back and forth — I couldn’t look in it, because I looked like a hot mess. But now that I look good and feel good — spiritually, physically, and mentally — that song helps me to grow.

I choose this song because it talks about growing and moving-up in life. And you need some stepping stones, and you also need strength, courage, and faith. That’s what it talks about, needing strength to rise above, and God. Without God I would still be in the dark.

An International Street Paper Collaboration Introduction by: Tony Inglis, INSP.ngo Vendors across the street paper network face common problems: homelessness, poverty, discrimination, vulnerability, and countless more. Christmas is an especially tough time for people on the streets but, more often than not, vendors are reduced to the issues they face, rather than seeing them as individual human beings.Asistradition, the International Street Paper Network (INSP) put together a feature for the festive period centered on #ourvendors, and this year we decided to do something a little different.Weasked street paper vendors around the world: if they could give one song as a present this Christmas, which track would they choose, andOnewhy?hundred vendors from 38 street papers across 22 countries responded. Like our street paper network, the songs that have been chosen are vast in number, eclectic, and diverse. Some vendors tell intriguing tales behind their selections; others just like to dance. Music is universal, and ties us together, much like the street paper network ties vendors together from all over the world. In honor of our 9th anniversary this month, we have featured all One Step Away vendors, but will continue to showcase vendors from around the world in upcoming issues.

To listen to the full INSP vendor playlist visit: YouTube: goo.gl/sMw8wh Spotify: goo.gl/mJSrxx

MARIAJAMES WHERE IS THE LOVE DONNIE HATHAWAY & ROBERTA FLACK MCINTOSHVERNON I ONLY MEANT TO WET MY FEET THE WHISPERS

JOHNSONEDWARD WORK MEEK MILLS MKROJEVICSLOBODAN THE END THE DOORS

I choose this song because it’s inspiring. I’m going to work. A man who don’t work, don’t eat. He said he’s gonna get it any necessary,meanscause you know he’ll buy this paper like a secretary. It’s meaningful. It’s illustrates:inspirational.Tome,thesongaman that don’t work, don’t eat. I like to work, I like to learn, so it is significant in that way. Especially when I’m about to go to work, I put it right on. It’s my hype song.

My favorite song is The Whispers, “I Only Meant to Wet My Feet”. I found myself in that situation a couple times: where you’re only meant to have fun and you end up feeling more for it then you really did. I choose this song because I’ve been married twice, and I only meant to wet my feet with both of them, and I ended up married to both of them. The song reminds me of when me and my first wife were in school together. And for my second wife, it reminds me how I met her. The song makes me think about them, and it makes me feel pretty good.

I don’t know exactly, I was very young, maybe 18, and everyone started listening to The Doors. I liked Jim Morrison — I researched everything aboutThinkinghim.about what to come, the end. And my feeling about people leaving Earth. It touched my feelings.

Because it reminds me of people, and when I don’t think people are showing enough love I think of that song — “Where is the Love?” It sends a message of ways people should share love and what people think of when they think of love and why isn’t there enough love — where is it? It means to me that love is inside of me. Where is the love inside ofAme?couple of times the song did have a big impact on my life. One time I thought someone was not showing me enough love. Another time when someone was loving other things instead of people — like material things.

MCLAURINNEAL IF I EVER FALL IN LOVEVERSION)(ACAPELLA SHAI I choose this song because when I first heard it in the seventh grade I just feel in love with the song, and it reminded me, I got butterflies, because there was a young lady I kind of liked and it reminded me of her. I like that it’s acapella — there’s no music behind it, but it sounds like it has music behind it.It makes me feel joyous and pure. It reminds me of when I was young, and some of the girlfriends I’ve had when I was younger, they were pretty and nice. And also, it has a big significance because it was when I started my first signing group in seventh grade. I heard some guys in the hallway at Strawberry Mansion School and I feel in love with singing.

9 YEARS 1 MILLION PAPERS DISTRIBUTED. GIVING A PLATFORM AND A VOICE TO VOICELESSTHE . BREAKING DOWN STEREOTYPES AND COMMUNITYBUILDINGWITH 4,000 VOLUNTEERS OPPORTUNITIESMEANINGFULCREATING.&DIGNIFIEDFOR 3,000 PEOPLE HOMELESSNESSEXPERIENCINGORPOVERTY. THANK YOU! OUR IMPACT

OSAPHILLY.ORG 11 insp.ngo /inspstreetpapers@_INSP 2,000 volunteers support our global movement Over 100 street papers Published in 24 languages Our network in numbers is made up of: Our global network Every month, collectivelyvendorsearn Million$2.69,300 vendors sell street papers at any one time 21,000 vendors earn an income by selling street papers each year Million5 readers worldwide in 34 That’scountriesagrand total of $31 Million in the pockets of vendors every year 20 Million street papers were sold across the world in the past year

Can images and film achieve change? Renowned Italian author and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini once said: "Trying to have an impact on people is a bit like trying to scoop out the ocean with a thimble". While advertising expert Darren Richardson, who together with his team at Havas was responsible for the idea of "Repicturing Homeless", does not believe that "photos can solve an issue like homelessness", he does maintain that they can at least promote "scrutiny of visual stereotypes".

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Repicturing Homelessness

Ironically, "Repicturing Homeless" was created by an advertising agency — of all things — whose purpose, like all agencies, is to expertly arouse the obsessive desires of target markets around the world. And yet "Repicturing Homeless" provides a new perspective not only on the losers of consumerism, but also on ourselves. What are we, when we have nothing left? Probably not a concern often discussed within the advertising industry. But this fundamental question — concerning our own sense of self — may resonate, for example, when formerly homeless Kalle sees himself in the mirror wearing business wear, designer glasses, and a luxury watch, and breaks down in tears. This fiftyfifty seller, 56 years old and an alcoholic, languished on the street, on the bottom rung of society, for over twenty years before recently —

By: Hubert Ostendorf, Courtesy of INSP.ngo Clothes make the man: a principle that fiftyfifty vendors had the chance to experience firsthand as the subjects of an unusual photo shoot. Advertising agency Havas collaborated with the world's leading photo agency Getty Images to create a completely new perception of people living on the street, with the aim of helping to challenge existing prejudices. Their campaign, called "Repicturing Homeless", has received media coverage all around the world.

"Somehow, they've recognized the creative core in my personality." - Karl-Heinz

Even in the pre-digital era, Pasolini coined the phrase “hedonistic fascism”, referring to the pressure to acquire as much as possible, in his visionary work Corsair Writings — which we might interpret as greed that brutally oppresses both the individual and wider society. According to Pasolini, we suffer as individuals if we allow ourselves to be defined by prescribed patterns of consumption — the poor because they dream about what they neither have nor really need, and the rich because they have a compulsive desire to possess things which, although costly, are existentially meaningless. Ultimately society as a whole suffers as well, because it allows its vision and values to be dominated by advertising for something as inane as a new pair of trousers, quite literally in some cases. Pasolini wrote an essay — world-famous in his time — regarding a clothing manufacturer's blasphemous slogan: "Thou shalt not have any other jeans but me". He once, in a different context, summarized the situation as follows: "the real anti-democracy is mainstream culture".

Scrutiny? That's actually an understatement — there's far more to it than that. In fact, it's ultimately about contemplating what makes us human. And the meaning of status symbols. And how mercilessly we are all reduced to such symbols by our society, radically defined as it is by power and consumption.

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A different perspective on yourself is something that self-awareness can provide, certainly, but first and foremost something revealed by the way your environment responds to you. And this is exactly why it's not just the costume that has the impact — it's also the action of documenting it in photographic form. More than anything else, it's the disparaging looks when she sells her street paper that make 36-year-old Vanessa, homeless for over a decade, feel discriminated against. She can use the photos that she'll now keep on her cheap mobile phone to get the message across to people: look, this is me as well. Not just the woman on the street, whom conceited fellow human beings dart past with unkind judgments on their lips. "Get a job!" — time and time again, this patronizing demand. As if selling a street paper wasn't work. Though it's probably not seen as proper, accepted work by much of society. That's something Vanessa has only experienced once in her life. On just one day — and even then it was only a feeling: at the photo shoot for "Repicturing Homeless". What the images captured at the shoot are capable of conveying does, in the end, have a certain value to society. Vanessa realized that this was the case after the media suddenly started to show an interest in her — she keeps having to retell her life story. And the attention is benefiting her, because Vanessa, much like other people condemned on the street, is suddenly able to use her visual transformation to help present a lesson about the state of our post-fact, capitalist society. A lesson about the dangers we face.

finally — receiving a flat as part of this street paper's Housing First program. In between sobs, he confesses: "I feel like a new person". Jennifer, meanwhile, is dressed as a waitress, in less luxurious attire but nevertheless beautifully groomed. At first she can't quite credit her transformation — until, waiting around in the posh hotel where the shoot is taking place, at a moment when the lens of star photographer Frank Schemmann's camera is not pointed her way, a more senior member of staff reprimands her, asking whether she has nothing better to do than stand around gawking. He took her for a hotel employee. "That's when I first realized just how big a part clothing plays", says Jennifer. She continues, resigned: "It shows what I could be. But it takes more than just clothes. Even in an outfit this fancy, I still wouldn't get by in a meritocracy".

The same can’t be said for Michael Hermann, whom everybody refers to as Hörman. This man, visibly scarred by life and now living in a fiftyfifty flat after more than twenty years under bridges and on the street, still harbors lofty dreams. Fittingly, the creative team at Havas and photographer Schemmann saw a professor in him: decked out in expensive clothes and proudly striding around the set, he plays the role perfectly. Although Hörman himself admits that it couldn’t be much further from his own, abject reality, he remains hopeful. “Life is full of surprises”, he murmurs into his red beard, as he writes Einstein’s famous formula onto a window for a photo. Could Einstein be his alter ego?

Probably not what Hörman means. Instead, the chance that it might one day be possible to overcome the constraints of a fate characterized by dependence on drugs or other pitfalls.

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Karl-Heinz Hasenjäger, also 56, is in a similar situation. In his own words, he was “born on the street” — his parents were homeless before him. KarlHeinz was photographed as a fashion designer and he found the new role a surprisingly good fit too. “Somehow, they’ve recognized the creative core in my personality”, the talented amateur painter explains, full of appreciation. But real life has not been so kind to him. Karl-Heinz currently lives in a shabby shelter, light years away from a life as a recognized creative force. He enjoys this dream of a better future so much, and yet he is so imprisoned in his own small world — which he bears with a singular sense of humor. You could say “gallows humor”, he laughs. Having a realistic understanding of his position and finding a certain satisfaction in it is “my own way of coping”, he muses. Remaining humble, when prospects are thin on the ground, without giving in to desperation. And a strategy for surviving.

Translated from German by Alex Green

Courtesy of fiftyfifty / INSP.ngo

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fiftyfifty has launched a large number of lucrative social campaigns over the years — some of which have received coveted design awards — with the aim of communicating the scandal of poverty in a modern way. Our partners are the agency, they are responsible for the layout of the issue “Repicturing Homeless” appears in, and the design of our home page. One of the things we have achieved together was to secure a cinema spot for Russian street circus Upsala. In addition, a tram completely designed in spectacular fashion is set to ride through Düsseldorf in the near future. Students at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (HSD) and private higher education institutions such as the AMD Academy of Fashion and Design have canvassed on behalf of fiftyfifty, as have many students from the Lore-Lorentz-Schule Düsseldorf vocational college and several top international agencies like Jung von Matt, McCann Erickson, and even Havas, which was responsible for the design and implementation of "Repicturing Homeless". Some of the other sensational ideas Havas has produced for fiftyfifty: as well as making a homeless person literally invisible on the street using light effects, one of their projects was to lower the temperature in a cinema to the level of an average fridge and then show a film about the cold on the streets, including verbatim quotes from homeless people. They also won the country's leading competition for large posters (BEST 18/1 Award) with an intelligent social media campaign, winning the prize money of EUR 50,000 on behalf of fiftyfifty in the process. A visual résumé of our most important social campaigns can be found in the fiftyfifty archive in a special publication by the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf and on the fiftyfifty video channel — a link to which can be found at the very bottom of our home page alongside the YouTube logo.

Because Vanessa and the others hold a mirror up to ourselves. Look out — the same thing could happen to you in this predatory economy. We could all stumble. Be a Vanessa. Or a Kalle.

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Photos: 1 & 2: Karl Heinz on the streets and during the photo shoot. 3 & 4: Vanessa at photo shoot and on the streets. 5: Jennifer at photo shoot. 6: Kalle on the streets. Credit: Frank Schemmann, Getty/Havas

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"Instead of cliched, conventional images of desperation and poverty, we've tried to surprise people and encourage them to think...."

Darren Richardson, Chief Creative Officer at Havas, has the following take: "Instead of clichéd, conventional images of desperation and poverty, we've tried to surprise people and encourage them to think with our campaign. Our approach is not intended to leave people downcast or with a heavy conscience — first and foremost, we want to prompt people to challenge their perceptions of our fellow human beings, influenced as these ideas often are by privilege."PaulFoster, Senior Director at Getty Images, adds: "We believe that the photos have the power to change perceptions, even inspire compassion, drive changes". In other words, images can achieve change. This means, according to Foster, that the "Repicturing Homeless" project will directly benefit the disadvantaged people that fiftyfifty looks after. Getty Images will donate every last penny of the proceeds from the sale of the photo licenses to magazines, newspapers and websites, to fiftyfifty housing projects for the homeless. In this respect, images can definitely have an impact.

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While the organization does have all of its volunteer opportunities filled for the upcoming holiday, it needs volunteers every other day of the year, too.

“We rely on volunteers to sustain our work every day of the year, as they make up 70 percent of our workforce,” Hefner said. “We cannot do this work without volunteers.”

People who would like to volunteer with Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission should email volunteer@sundaybreakfast.org or call 215-9226400 x 1007 for more information. If you’re the type who enjoys helping others during this time of year, there are other opportunities to volunteer throughout the holiday season.

MANNA The hunger alleviation nonprofit invites volunteers to help in preparing and delivering meals to people with life-threatening illnesses. You can find more information on MANNA volunteer opportunities here or by calling 215-496-2662. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Wells Fargo Mobile Food Bank Wells Fargo and Philabundance are working together this holiday season to collect nonperishable food items for those in need. Through Dec. 31, Philadelphians will be able to donate items at different Wells Fargo branches around the city. There will also be a mobile food bank accepting donations at the Wells Fargo Center, Dilworth Park and Headhouse Square. Last year, more than 5,295 pounds of non-perishable food items were delivered to local food banks and pantries, providing almost 4,413 meals.

Coalition Against Hunger The nonprofit published a list of locations where you can donate your meal-serving time this Christmas season.

Julio Arroyo, Sunday Breakfast’s director of food services, has served more than one million meals at the rescue mission, Hefner said. Arroyo begins planning the Thanksgiving meal menu in early October and begins cooking two days before Thanksgiving in addition to serving the shelter’s normal three meals each day.

VOLUNTEER AND DONATION OPPORTUNITIES TO AID PHILLY’S HUNGRY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON IN PHILADELPHIA, THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF NEED TO HELP PEOPLE FACING ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS.

SEE: THE STAGNANT POVERTY RATE, INCREASING HUNGER, A DIFFICULT-TO-NAVIGATE

AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS.

By: Peak Johnson, Generocity.org Thankfully, there are a wealth of nonprofits and other social service organizations eager to step in year-round — and especially on holidays associated with meals, comfort, and community. But it takes a lot of time and planning to make such events run smoothly. In preparation for each year’s Thanksgiving service, Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, for instance, begins its outreach to local business, churches, schools and community partners in late July to begin coordinating sites for its food drive to stock the Thanksgiving pantry. “Each year, we refine the plan made the year before, so this year we have 140 years of planning invested into our food drive and Thanksgiving meal,” said Elizabeth Hefner, Sunday Breakfast’s director of advancement. (The nonprofit was founded in 1878.) “In early September, we share our shopping list and all of our food drive partners begin collecting items. This is also when we share our food drive needs on social media, in emails, and with all of our supporters to really get the word out.”

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The food drive brings in nearly a million pound of food, Hefner said. In 2017, Sunday Breakfast served more than 300 people, and expects to serve even more each year — and the meal is open to anyone and everyone. Volunteers and staff spend more than 20 hours planning and cooking the Thanksgiving meal.

Sunday Breakfast also hosts 30 to 40 volunteers each year to help prepare, decorate their dining room, and serve the Thanksgiving meal.

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On December 8, from 11 am to 5 pm the Center for Creative Works will host their Annual Holiday Open House Sale. The Center for Creative Works (CCW) is an art studio that supports and mentors artists with intellectual disabilities. CCW works with their participant artists to explore creative ways to earn money, express themselves, engage with and contribute to their communities, and build artistic skills. Their holiday arts sale will feature artist tables selling original art, comics, sculptures, ceramics, music, holiday cars, shirts, needlepoint, bags, fibers, woodworks, prints, and much more. For more details about the event or to shop online visit centerforcreativeworks.org.

Congratulations to One Step Away on your 9th Anniversary! broadstreetministry.org From your friends at Sugar Maple Fall Plates by Artist Judy Barnett

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Christmas Breakfast Christmas Breakfast is an annual breakfast held for those in need by the Arch Street United Methodist Church. Volunteers are needed to prepare food and serve. Please contact the church directly if you are interested in signing up to volunteer on Christmas morning. Contact: 215-568-6250

Saturday, December 8, 11 am to 5 pm 241 East Lancaster Avenue Wynnewood, PA 19096

At the end of the Thanksgiving Day parade, the civic engagement nonprofit will be collecting items for people experiencing homelessness at Thomas Paine Plaza. Items needed include socks, underwear and snacks. Since the drive is starting directly after the parade, keep in mind that you might want to give yourself some extra time to make it to the plaza because of traffic. The United Methodist Church Grace Cafe & Christmas Breakfast Grace Cafe offers meals to individuals experiencing homelessness every Sunday from 4:45 to 8 pm, and need meal-servers. They can accommodate groups up to 25 people. Groups of 5 or less can walk-in to help any Sunday, but larger groups need to schedule a Contact:time. gracecafephilly@gmail.com to schedule.

Center for Creative Works Holiday Art Sale

18 ONE STEP AWAY “ ” REFUGEES in AMERICA Finding the Humanity of Refugees: An Interview with the Ngarama Family A photo essay by Ted Goldman at TGoldmanPhotography.com

My case was an emergency because there were spies from Rwanda who kill refugees in

Uganda.

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Refugee carries a legal definition — it’s a person who is fleeing political persecution, persecution from a social group, war or ethnic conflict; they have no choice but to flee where they live. You don’t just become a refugee; you can become someone who is fleeing, but a refugee is someone with a particular status and that comes by registering with the UN where their story is vetted.Animmigrant is someone who chooses to come here for a better life, though they can be fleeing, they are not going through the legal process — that’s the distinction.

The words “immigrant” and “refugee” are very impersonal. They offer no insight into the humanity of the people who are trying to come to the United States — either for a better life or to escape persecution. I wanted to know who these people are as humans — what brings them here, what they leave behind, their hopes, their fears. Through the Nationalities Service Center (NSC) I had the opportunity to meet and interview many of these people who are seeking refuge in the United States. NSC is Philadelphia’s leading immigrant and refugee service organization. Their mission is to empower individuals to build a self-sustaining and dignified future. In September I had the privilege of meeting the Ngarama family of six who were resettled from Rwanda in February 2018. I heard the story of Jean-Bosco who was persecuted and tortured by his government. After this emotional experience I will never be able to use the word refugee without thinking about the assault on humanity that stands behind it. Jean-Bosco Ngarama and Family Jean-Bosco was a teacher, lawyer, and human rights activists in Rwanda. In 2003, as a result of his human rights work, he became an enemy of the state. Thus beginning Jean-Bosco’s fifteen year persecution, lasting until he and his family became refugees and resettled in the United States. This is the story of the Ngarama family’s harrowing journey out of Rwanada, and their dreams for the future as they rebuild their lives in America. What’s the difference between a refugee and an immigrant?

We began to speak. He told his horrid story in a very matter of fact way, often with a smile, never showing anger or hatred towards a country that had inflicted such harm on him, his family, and his fellow citizens. But his experience is indelibly etched upon his eyes — he remembers exact dates and details of experiences that go back fifteen years.

(Margaret O’Sullivan, Executive Director, Nationalities Service Center) The Interview

Before you read this story, please take a moment to look in a mirror.... Unless you saw a Native American in your reflection, you or your ancestors are immigrants, refugees, or enslaved Africans. They built this country into the shining star that it is — (well sometimes is, but not always). There have been times when these new Americans were welcomed (whether choosing to come here or being brought against their will). But there are those people who feel the welcoming doors should close behind them. Today, that virus has erupted into a raging fever against new arrivals, fearing that en masse they will rape, murder, and plunder the United States. No rational data supports this false narrative. In fact, the future economic growth of the United States requires an expanding workforce.

It was Sunday morning just after the Ngarama’s returned from church. I nervously knocked on the door of their South Philadelphia row home, the housing arranged by the Nationalities Service Center. A young boy opened the door, he didn’t seem to speak English. I entered and Jean-Bosco’s wife Alphonsine approached me. She welcomed me into their home with a hug. While waiting for Jean-Bosco I looked around the house. In the living room there were three leather sofas arranged in a “U” that looked new. In the corner was a large screen TV with cable box. In the dining room two young boys played on a computer. Jean-Bosco came down the stairs and greeted me with his warm smile. We sat in the living room for the interview. It was clear that he wanted to tell his story he and Alphonsine signed my release without hesitation.

How did you leave Rwanda?

Tell me about Rwanda and why you had to leave?

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Jean-Bosco: It was because of my work on human rights. Sometimes when they took us for interrogation we were tortured — they used sticks, electric cables, and more. My wife didn’t know where I was for ten months — or if I was alive or dead. One night I was sent to the Criminal Intelligence Department,

I left my country because of political issues. I was a human rights activist and from the year 2000 I was a member of a big organization called the League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights in Rwanda (LIPRODHOR). I reported about violations of human rights done by the military or the government. As an example, I monitored the 2003 presidential election and reported that some people were arrested by the military if they didn’t vote for the political party that was in power, some people were beaten. After my report I was arrested by the police and released after two days.

It was more than I can say — it was torture! Did you know why you were arrested?

I slept on the floor and used the jerrycan as a toilet for one week; I was treated worse than an animal — it was torture. I stayed in that small room from Monday to Monday. Everything was done in that small room. They brought me food, and I ate it, even though it might be poison — I had no choice.

After being detained for one month I received a letter saying that I would be judged with a group of twenty nine people who were also arrested for endangering the state. With help from Lawyers Without Borders, in January of 2012 the court pronounced that I was innocent and I was released — but I was told that even if I leave prison it doesn’t mean that I didn’t do anything: “We will be watching you wherever you go!”. Human rights people told me: “If you continue to live in this country they will kill you.”

Jean-Bosco: After my release I went by myself to the neighboring country of Uganda and received asylum. People came to see me from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International to do interviews; they knew that people were detained and tortured in Rwanda, but they didn’t have enough information. Amnesty International used [my interview] in a report: Rwanda: Shrouded in Secrecy: Illegal detention and torture by Military Intelligence Human Right Watch also released a report in 2015 or 2016 which is online with my testimony and videos, but my face was hidden. Human Rights Watch helped me with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, also known as the UN Refugee Agency), which is how I left Uganda for the USA. My case was an emergency because there were spies from Rwanda who kill refugees in Uganda. I started the process at the end of 2012 and in 2013 my family joined [Jean-Boscome.explained that the UNHCR sends letters to all countries about refugees screened for resettlement. He got a letter stating that he and his family would be resettled to the United States. But there are many steps to take before resettlement actually happens: After that you wait. Human rights people told me: “If you continue to live in this country they will kill you.”

and after three days they took me to a military court where I was charged with endangering the state. [Then] they took me to a military prison where they blindfolded and beat me. I was sent again at night to another barracks for more torture; they put me in a very small room, gave me shorts and a shirt, and gave me a “jerrycan” [a liquid container similar to those designed in Germany in the 1930s for military use to hold five gallons of fuel].

After one week they took me to the civil court and the prosecutor charged me with four crimes: 1) Endangering the State: that I threw bombs in the capital; 2) Assassination: I asked who I killed and they said to ask that during judgment; 3) Terrorism: I asked for proof and they said wait; 4) Link with Enemies

Three years later, in 2006, they took me to court on the same case. In 2007, I was sentenced to three years in jail; I appealed with help from Lawyers Without Borders, but the court confirmed the sentence. It was four or five in the morning on June 16, 2010 when the military came to my door and took me to a barracks where I spent the night in a small room. Throughout that night I received tortures. Then they covered my eyes, put me in handcuffs, and took me on a very long drive. I was [then] put in a room with two other people, they gave us military uniforms. My handcuffs were not removed until November 15 — five months later! During that time we could only sit down. There was no mattress, we just had a small carpet, [and] a small blanket for two people. We had one liter of water per day for washing hands and drinking. We ate beans and corn once per day.We could wash our bodies once per month or two, insects attacked people when they didn’t wash. [The guards] took us to the toilet in the morning and evening.

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Jean-Bosco: Thank you so much for that question.

Jean-Yves: We just wanted to go somewhere to be safe because there were spies who wanted to take him again. Were you scared for your personal safety? Were they just after your dad, or were they after the family?

Jean-Yves: Anywhere! How did the Nationality Service Center help when you reached Philadelphia?

Did more than one country accept you or was it only the US?

After just three weeks Jean-Yves had a job in a restaurant. In March my wife got a job in catering, and in April I got a job at the same restaurant with my son. NSC is very good because they helped us get jobs.

Jean-Bosco: The USA is a good country — it’s a safe place, it’s a country free from torture. It’s a country where you can get a job — everything is fine in the USA. All of our children are in school, we don’t have a problem with food because we have jobs. It’s a good country. What is your long term hope?

Jean-Bosco: Everyone must plan for their future. I want to see my children finish school and working. I want my own house and my own car, today we use the public bus. I also want a [steady] job — it’s hard work in a restaurant. We want to stay in the USA, especially Philadelphia. We are waiting to apply for green cards. NSC calls you after eighteen months to start the process.

“ They were after my dad — but you can’t get the dad and leave the children. We were all scared. ”

Did you want to go to the United States?

Jean-Bosco: The first thing we need as human beings is security; the second thing is a job; the third is school for the children. Did your children understand why you had to leave Rwanda and then go to the United States?

When did you first know you were going to the United States?

Jean-Bosco: I don’t know, that’s the work of the UNHCR — they only sent me a letter from the United States.

When you learned you were going to the United States, did you think that was good? What did you think about the United States?

Jean-Bosco: After landing in New York we were driven to the Philadelphia airport where we met our case manager and an interpreter. [They brought us] to this house and explained how we use everything, like the frigde, the restroom, everything. The following day the case manager took us to the main office where there are many activities and they gave us a schedule for one month. We met the health team and many people. We went to NSC everyday from Monday through Friday — it’s like a school.

Before you came to the United States you were almost an adult, did you understand what was happening, that your dad was tortured and Rwanda was trying to kill him?

Jean-Bosco: Yes they knew, but it’s better to ask them. (He called twenty-year-old Jean-Yves to come over to join the conversation.)

Jean-Bosco: I knew many things — it’s a secure country and I was only looking for security [for] me and my family. Total security — no jail and no torture! Most Americans have no idea about being tortured — Americans are free. You are a family that only wants to go somewhere where you would have security and wouldn’t be tortured. Is that all you wanted?

Jean-Bosco: It was in 2015. I could have come in 2016, but the day [we were] traveling one of my children was sick so the travel was cancelled. It took until 2018 to get here.

Jean-Yves: People know we’re from Rwanda, but they don’t know our story. They treat us nice, especially the Nationalities Service Center; they helped me go to school, and next year I’m going to college, and after that I want to be a doctor. Where do you want to go to medical school?

Jean-Bosco: During the screening by the UNHCR they don’t ask which country you want; they don’t ask if you can accept any country.

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Jean-Yves: They were after my dad — but you can’t get the dad and leave the children. We were all scared, but my younger brothers and sister didn’t know as much as me. Do you feel safe in the United States?

You’ve been here for seven months, what do you think of the United States?

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Author’s Note We ended with a family portrait of these new Americans, left to right: Aline (18); Bernard (9); Jean-Yves (20); Jean-Bosco (48); Robert (11); Alphonsine (43). The two-hour interview seemed no more than a minute as I was totally transfixed by the Ngarama’s. Jean-Bosco brought into vivid reality what refugee status is all about — people fleeing for their lives.

After taking the family portrait and shaking hands with the children, Jean-Bosco and Alphonsine walked me onto their porch for a few final words. As we chatted, Alphonsine stooped to the floor. I looked down and saw that one of my shoelaces was untied and without a word she was tying it — I literally couldn’t breathe. As she stood, I thanked her but didn’t make a big deal out of it, even though it was so big — a tiny act of kindness the likes of which I had never experienced. My goal is to find the humanity of refugees, and in that moment, it found me. I left thinking that when their plane touched down at JFK airport on February 6, 2018, the shining star of the United States of America burned a little brighter. Their proven strength and resilience will surely bring value to this country, and that is their commitment… We need more Ngarama’s.

***** I hope this photo essay will help challenge the false narrative about immigrants and refugees that is being promoted in some quarters.Thisarticle has been edited for length and clarity. To read the whole essay, visit TGoldmanPhotography.com. “ The USA is a good country. It’s a safe place. It’s a country free from torture. ”

When I went out of the restaurant where I work to throw away trash, I saw someone being beaten — I just remembered how I was beaten.

Today many Americans don’t want refugees — what would you say to them?

This is not an academic concept: turning a blind eye should not be an option — though it often is.

Jean-Bosco: We didn’t ask to be refugees. [We would have preferred to stay in our own country] — we came here because we weren’t safe. How would you explain to Americans why they should welcome you and value the contributions you and your family will make to this country as good citizens?

Jean-Bosco: I’m not able to prove how I will be a good citizen, but I can tell you that my first goal is to work hard. When you work you give taxes to the government which means you are building the country with others. We came on February 6, 2018 and three of us were employed within two months — it means that we contributed to the government as soon as we got here and that’s the proof I can give you. When you have a job you can get food and everything for yourself without waiting for assistance from government; if you don’t contribute to tax it gives a bad name to refugees that they are coming to live off of the government. (He said with great pride that the sofas we were sitting on, the big screen TV in the corner, and the computer being used by the children were all purchased with earnings from their jobs.)

Jean-Bosco: We have a big family with many uncles and aunts, and my first born is [still] in Rwanda — he has a different mother. It’s difficult to leave your home country but when we came here NSC received us and helped us to know what to do in a new place. One final question: do you relive the torture you received in Rwanda?

Jean-Bosco: Yes — imagine someone who spent ten months under torture, can you ever forget that?

You and your family are doing very well in the United States, but what did you leave behind in Rwanda?

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Bob has taught me so much about the power of friendship, that we are stronger when we help each other I was a textbook teenage tearaway. For a decade after returning to England from Australia, where’d I’d spent most of my youth, I lived a pretty chaotic life, addicted to heroin and sleeping rough on the streets of London. When you lead this sort of life, a sort of ‘me against the world’ mentality sets in, especially if you are headstrong like I was. You live inside your own bubble, driven by the simple, overwhelming goal of surviving from one day to the next. It also breeds mistrust, paranoia in some instances. It’s a big mistake because there is so much help out there. And we all stand a better chance of surviving in life when we accept help and draw on other people. It took me a long time to realize this. I was often too proud, too stubborn perhaps, to ask for help from the various drug and homeless charities that offered me support. Even if I did accept their help, I’d abuse it by misbehaving or failing to stick to the programs they put me on. Bob changed that. When I found him injured he needed my help. I didn’t realize it then, of course, he was offering it to me too. By working together, we found new strength and were able to rebuild our lives. Today, if anyone asks me advice on dealing with any kind of problem, whether it is homelessness or drug addiction, my number-one tip is that — ask for help. Because we can’t do it on our own. We are all stronger together. I really do wish I’d realised that sooner.

2. THERE'S A JOY TO SHARING

Interview by Adrian Lobb, INSP.ngo

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I’d gone for the premiere of the movie based on my book, A Street Cat Named Bob, and had — as I wrote in The Big Issue — met some vendors selling the Japanese version of this magazine. To my amazement and delight two of them had had experiences with cats. They both described the difference it had made to their lives. They told me how without their cats they’d been ignored, shunned even, by the world. It was as if they were invisible. With a cat at their side, however, that all changed. Suddenly people had time for them. They had an identity. It was a precise mirror of what happened to me when I met Bob.

3. NONE OF OUR PROBLEMS ARE UNIQUE It took a trip to Japan with Bob to teach me a particularly important lesson.

Hearing these men talk had a massive impact on me. For many years, especially when I was young and homeless, I imagined that my circumstances were absolutely unique. That there was no one else in the world that was burdened with the same problems as me. I wish I’d known back then that I was far from unusual. Life might not have been any different in a material sense, but at least I would not have felt so terribly alone.

INTERNATIONAL: STREET PAPER IMPACT FORGET MINDFULNESS — THIS IS BOBFULNESS

Another inevitable side effect of being homeless and an addict is that you become selfish. Your goal is looking after number one. It has to be. No one else is going to do it. Since Bob came into my life, however, I’ve learned about responsibility and caring for another creature. But I’ve also — crucially — come to appreciate the joy of sharing. When you start sharing your life with someone else you appreciate the pleasure it brings. Whether it’s eating a meal together, sitting in front of the TV or going for a walk, it’s a more satisfying experience if you have a companion. That’s certainly been the case in recent years, when — with Bob — I’ve had some amazing experiences, traveling the UK and beyond, signing books and attending events. I particularly enjoy it when I know Bob is enjoying himself too. They say a problem shared is a problem halved. By the same token I think good fortune shared is good fortune doubled.

1. WE SHOULDN'T BE AFRAID OF ASKING FOR HELP

Former Big Issue vendor James Bowen was lost and alone until a stray ginger cat called Bob sauntered into his life. A clutch of bestselling books and a blockbuster film later, James talks us through the five vital lessons Bob has given him. They're 'Pawsitively' inspirational.

5. THERE'S GOOD IN THE EVERYDAY During my darkest times on the street it was often hard to see the positives in life. Most days were an unrelenting grind, a battle to just make it through unscathed. Survival was the one positive really. But when I started busking and selling The Big Issue around London Bob taught me to view life differently. Some days I’d watch him, basking in a spell of sunshine or simply sitting there watching the world go by and I’d realise he was relishing that moment. Forget mindfulness, it was Bobfulness. He was ‘in the moment’. It wasn’t much, but whatever it was he was taking pleasure from it. I tried to learn from that. Rather than dwelling on the bad I began to teach myself to appreciate the good in each day. It was always there if you looked hard enough. It might just be glorious weather or a particularly beautiful sky. It might be a random act of kindness that I experienced or a conversation with someone who genuinely seemed to be interested in me and my welfare. Whatever it was it was to be celebrated. It became a new mindset. One that I didn’t really have when I was a younger and – unfortunately – angrier person. There’s good in the everyday. Again, I wish I’d known and appreciated that sooner.

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One of the things that I most admire about Bob is that he’s nonjudgmental. He doesn’t decide to like someone because of the clothes they wear or the car they drive. He isn’t impressed by expensive jewellery or even a posh accent. He makes his decision based on how he senses that person is going to treat him, whether or not they are going to be kind or not. We’re all guilty of being judgmental. I’ve seen both sides of this. When I was selling The Big Issue and — before that — living rough on the streets, people used to see me and make their minds up within seconds. I could see it in their eyes. They wrote me off as a waste of space, someone not worth the bother. I was little better sometimes. Occasionally I’d meet someone else on the streets — a fellow vendor or rough sleeper perhaps — and write them off. I did the same with outreach workers sometimes, dismiss them for trying to change me, to force me to mend my ways. I’ve tried to avoid doing that since I turned my life around. I’ve tried to follow Bob’s example and give everyone a chance. I don’t always get it right of course. We all get people wrong. But even if I do make a mistake — for instance by trusting someone who later lets me down — I can at least feel safe in the knowledge that I gave them a fair crack of the whip, that I didn’t rush to judgment. It’s an important change of attitude that — again — I wish I’d made in my life, ‘pre-Bob’.

The Little Book of Bob: Life Lessons from a Streetwise Cat by James Bowen is out now. With thanks to Garry Jenkins

That song was recorded at Metway Studios in Brighton, which belongs to the Levellers. It was mastered at Abbey Road, which was a dream come true — The Beatles are one of my big influences, from them to Arctic Monkeys and Bob Dylan. He gets everywhere.

'FELINE' THE BEAT FORMER BUSKER JAMES TELLS US ABOUT TWO BRAND NEW SONGS HE'S RELEASING TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE BIG ISSUE FOUNDATION Tell us about the new single, James.

‘Time To Move On’ is a song about sleeping rough. I wrote it with Henry Facey, who is my guitarist. He is a busker, so I’ve been out with him a few times and we were playing around Covent Garden in central London when we wrote it. I’m very proud of the song. It has come out so beautifully. The police always say, ‘Time to move on’ and kick people out of doorways, so this is a very personal song. You can hear that, right to the last line, about walking through the night until the dawn when you can sleep safely. I am so proud of it. Where did you record it?

I’m so excited to put the song out there. I think it is very Andcatchy.the other release?

‘And Then Came Bob’ is more of a feel good Christmas song. I recorded that one with Dominic Ferris at his studio. He is a world-famous pianist who travels the world playing music. His mum actually wrote the lyrics, I added the vocals, and we brought Dominic in to play keyboards and produce the song. There’s a local Brighton school choir on it who sound very good. Where can we buy the songs? You can get them on iTunes and Amazon. And obviously it will be downloadable from our website. I just hope people like it and I hope people enjoy the music and also enjoy the message of it. Watch this space because we are looking to make an album soon! What an exciting way to end the year! Yes! And the film is currently number three at the box office in China — that market is really hard to break. So that has been a brilliant surprise. It just goes to show that Bob really is the most famous cat in the world, doesn’tCourtesyit?

4. DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

UPDATE BY:POWELLWILLIAM Hello and how are you? And to all my supporters, this is William. We are coming along surely but slowly, you know the Legal Services are it and that will be enough for that. I am finished with all that calling and reporting to the Legal Services and it is time to overcome all of that right now. I like that kind of recovery, we are making progress. And now for the other side of it to see if the other part will come in later, you know the lockout situation. You know the more things clear the more things clear off, I think they might have been trying to give me a word about letting off on the reporting side of it but it was not clear enough so that is why I learned on my own. It feels good to replace all that calling and reporting, I don’t need it anymore and that is that. I am looking for things to get better and recover that way. So how do you like this one?

Every year it seems as if the celebration of Christmas starts earlier and earlier. Usually people start preparing for the Christmas holiday even after Halloween. I say that because folk are so tied up in the festivities, forgetting the main source of why Christmas was actually intended to be. Luke 2:42-45, speaks of the Passover feast. And the Passover feast is a big event regarding the Jewish culture. Meaning so much work and preparations that are done to assure that the Passover feast is done according to the Jewish tradition. When the Passover celebration is concluded, and as they returned, the boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother Mary did not know it at the time. But supposing Jesus had been in the company, they went a day’s journey to sought him among their relatives and acquaintances. So, when they did not find him, they then returned to Jerusalem seeking him. They had lost the twelve-year-old Jesus. In which he was in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. I entitled this piece, “A Christmas Story, lost in the feast”

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A tangible thing like gift giving, drinking, and all the festivities has drowned out the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas symbolizes the birth of the Messiah. But in our western civilization, folks seem to allow the true meaning to rapidly dissipate. Yes y’all, Jesus was lost in the feast. Our true Lord, and our Savior, and the mainstream of this particular holiday season, has been lost in the sauce. Oh, what a shame. What disrespect, and what sin. Yes, I said sin. Because when you deny the Lord, Jesus, I truly believe that is a cardinal sin in the making. I know and understand folks may not agree with me on this piece, but it is what it is. I pray and hope that this message was well received by all the saints, and the beloveds of our Lord and savior, Jesus the Christ. In closing, I’m not saying not to celebrate, give gifts, or even preparing with family members, and even erecting a tree for the little ones. But at the same time, be very sure to enlighten minds. Especially our young minds as of what the true meaning of Christmas renders. Because I truly believe that if Christ was the mainstream of the Christmas holiday season. Well then, all the other activities will be well understood in conjunction with the baby in the manger. May God bless you all…

I understand that this exhortation may not be the traditional story we’ve heard in past times. To brief this exhortation, I’d like to get straight to the point I’m attempting to render. Most folks these days are truly stressing themselves out trying to prepare for visiting guest and family members. I mean all the shopping, the erection of the Christmas trees, the preparing of the food, wrapping gifts, and then more shopping. You see, all of these activities can and surely block out the true meaning of Christmas. Joseph and Mary were so busy preparing that they lost their twelve-year-old son, Jesus. Metaphorically, folks today are doing the exact same things. All the holiday sales in the stores, all the families that travel from out of town, the cooking, the decorations, and yes, even the booze. All of that together directs the mind to assure that we have to do everything in our power to see that all is prepared and ready for the visiting guest.Butall while doing these things, our Lord has been out on the back burner. To folks today, Christmas is about food, gifts and yes, boozing. What happened to the baby in the manger? Folks have truly forgot and actually lost Jesus in all the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season. Society doesn’t recognize Jesus in almost anything these times and ages. Oh, what a sad situation. Yes, folks have forgotten about baby Jesus of whom Christmas was based. It truly saddens my heart to witness this type of rhetoric. Even children today couldn’t break down the true intent of Christmas. What has happened beloveds?

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I also enjoy some of the good conversations with people who donate money but don’t take a paper. And I enjoy the good conversations with some of the people who give no money, like the conversation I had long ago with Miss Genevieve.

There are four roads to the place called “well.”

The first road is no road. There is no hope. The second road to the place called “well” is a short one. You’re well in no time. The third road is the medium road. You get well but it takes a longer time. And there is the road I’m personally on..... The long road. You travel seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, and more. It snows, rains, and hails while you’re traveling. But after all the troubles end, you end up at the place called “well.” People get well when they’re ready. We have to at least try to understand, including me. I already do understand that. But I need to understand that more. And so do you, reader.

This writer is almost sixty years old. I have been on many a journey, throughout these years, but the one particular journey that I would like for my readers to engage began in 2008. This journey brought me to the city of “Brotherly Love,” commonly known as Philadelphia. I came to this to be with, what I thought at that time, the love of my life. I thought that God had finally delivered me a lifelong partner and that I would live happily ever after in this great city. I was wrong. I was wrong because I was more in love with drugs and alcohol, rather than the angel that had fallen out of heaven and into my arms. As a result of my abuse of drugs and alcohol, I became homeless by the year of 2010.

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At times I forget what people say. But at times I remember, too. An OSA customer of mine told me she faced deep problems in her past. She told me she was facing deep problems at that time she bought a paper from me. I told her I would write. Not about her life personally, but write about problems. I write this for her, and for all my customers like her. If you only gave money to me and didn’t take a paper, I write this for you, too. And to the good conversationalists who gave only that, I write this for you, too. And most of all, I write this for me. And to my dear sister friend in South Philadelphia, whom I’ve known since 1998, I dedicate this to you. As human beings, if we care, we expect hurt people to get well but in a certain time. But we don’t realize, or refuse to realize, that this can be harmful. Harmful to the hurt person. We have to at least try to be a bit more understanding. At least try. Before I became homeless, I taught myself a lesson: “No matter how many years have passed, William, if you hurt someone many years ago, go back and apologize. The person may still be hurt. Even if they are well and take it the wrong way, apologize anyway. At least you, William, had good intentions to apologize.”

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THE JOURNEY BY: ERIC HAZELWOOD WELL IN YOUR BY: WILLIAM HAWKINS

BEING

I have always been resilient and determined. I always wanted to pursue a college education, as my grandmother had done, in her later years. I was determined to do the same. I began college in 2011 at a university here in Philadelphia. I was a college freshman and I was addicted to drugs and alcohol and most importantly, I was homeless. Let us also throw in the fact that I was penniless and without a job.

It is written somewhere, “That God will not give you a burden no bigger than you can bear.” This was true in my case. Although I was caught up in the grips of addiction, I continued to ask God for help. Deliverance from the evil of my own soul. In time this deliverance came. I was no longer addicted to drugs and alcohol and landed a job as a One Step Away vendor. The money that I earned from writing and selling this street paper, made it capable for me to go to and from school. It gave me an opportunity to eat lunch with my classmates, and buy the materials necessary to maintain a 3.6 G.P.A.

It is now 2018, and I am out of money to finish school. I have to pay out of my pocket for the last nine credits needed to obtain a B.S. Degree in business. I am not giving up and have once again sought help from One Step Away for employment to help pay the rest of my tuition. Again God will not place a burden on my shoulders any bigger than I can bear. Once again He has given me an opportunity to earn an honest living while, most importantly, kept me clean and sober. I am earning money as a vendor for the newspaper and hope to soon use this opportunity to obtain employment worthy of helping me get the necessary money needed to pay for the last nine credits. I will get this degree and I will graduate and work on my Masters next. I am just One Step Away from completing this journey and then it will be on to the next.

Selling the One Step Away street paper has brought me money. And making money is the #1 goal for me. Not the only goal. But the #1 goal.

In addition to money, I enjoy some of the good conversations I have with some of my customers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR LIONEL WATERS AKA POINT My name is Lionel Waters, but I go by Point. I am 31 years old. I have been homeless for just over 15 years, if one uses the social service definition, and I felt that way for a long time. I grew up in the state system, being housed in various youth facilities and a bit after my 18th birthday the system cut my custody because of some very serious charges I was falsely accused. They were quickly dismissed, but DHS had dismissed me even quicker. I found myself truly homeless and without any support. Who cared…I was free. Everything I felt I missed out on I would pursue with deadly ambition. Sex, drugs, and entertainment were my primary pursuits, and that lifestyle was killing me rapidly even if the physical death would never come.

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I believe each of these definitions have unique consequences for those who lacks any of these identities. If a person lacks a house then the consequences are fairly foreseeable, but this is not so for those who lack a country of nativity or lack a country of origin or lack communal responsibility. It is impossible for one to lack a country of nativity or to lack a country of origin, because they were born, and their ancestry came from somewhere, but they may not have knowledge of such. In that case the results are not quickly manifested, and the repercussions are much more destructive to the psyche of an individual, because the absence of the support systems of ancestry, beliefs, and culture leave a gap in the mind and the soul that render an emptiness material can never fill. People must be able to live a connection with others like themselves. I believe that’s why people connect over likenesses as opposed to differences. Even more a great deal of wealth comes from the ground, and weather minerals, metals, natural gas, or other commodities nations own, operate, and control, a land derive for their people wealth from that land, and those who do not lack an essential resource for stability.

FACING HOMELESSNESS: WHAT IS HOMELESSNESS?

I know that in the more dimensions I experienced homeless the greater the complexities of the illnesses that manifested. I can tell you there is a persistent despair in wandering aimlessly headed nowhere, and not knowing from whence you came. I once thought a lack of responsibility was great only to find it devastates every good thing by eroding morality through the rejection of duty. Now that I accept my relationship to everything, I realize my purpose and am working to help others realize theirs. Now please take this moment to say, “The world is more joyful and more loving,” think how this is true, and feel that truth. Thank you for making the world a better place. Your time, attention, and resources are infinitely appreciated. Enjoy your time with family and live love.

In a matter of five years all I studied was how to have more sex, more drugs, and more entertainment. I began doing things that I can only describe as the death of a soul, and my body I no longer took pleasure in. I thank the correctional system for helping me save my life. I do not remember where I picked up the habit of living in the silver lining of any situations people wanted me to suffer in, but I will by no means allow anyone to revel in my destruction, so whenever I’m in adverse circumstances I find what will allow me to transcend the situation, and I live there. So I used that time to improve my whole self through various practices, and even though they went out the window almost every time I left jail it would eventually come to me making a change or becoming deranged, I would listen or go to prison, I would stop taking meth or death. I chose life, liberty, and lucidity. Since 2015 I have been building a better today, and not only am I humbled and honored at the person I am, I know I will be better tomorrow. Thanks for listening.

BY: LIONEL WATERS AKA POINT

Hello World, I’m Lionel, but you can call me Point, a chronically homeless individual working to build a better today. Many people advocate that one cannot help another until they have helped themselves, but here’s a secret… if you help another… you are helping yourself; so while the obstacles we face are as diverse as the cultures and traditions in our world, I find it our duty to educate ourselves on and apply ourselves to the issues that have little or even seem to have no relevance to ourselves. Unless one can has created from nothing the entirety of their existence, I cannot fathom what independence looks like, for each one of us draws from everything around us. Facing Homelessness helps me redefine what homelessness is and the factors that contribute to it, and that aids my struggle with the emotions and mindsets that homelessness can produce. I hope it adds something to your understanding of homelessness as well.So, let’s say homelessness is a lack of an adequate and permanent, safe and stable place designated to be a dwelling, but I believe that a better understanding includes defining home itself. 1: the place where one lives, 2: the country of nativity or origin. 3: the place where one seeks communal continuity which can be summed up in the saying: “Home is where the heart is.” I believe if a nomadic tribe member was asked “what home is?” I think they would answer in terms of land in relationship to their tribal community.

In desperate need of refuge

Some more severe than others But that doesn’t mean living like an animal is warranted

MY PURPOSE - Is to tell how good (God) really is, He loves you unconditionally, material things Foods and fine wine , that’s not what’s on his mind, what He loves is your heart and soul, that’s more precious to Him than silver and gold , because we are His children to love and behold, He has brought me through some difficult times, once I was being robbed with a gun pointed to my mind, this is something that I must mention, but the gun didn’t go off — because of His divine intervention, and in a brief moment He showed me what might have been if He didn’t step in.

It’s not their problem; it’s yours

Cold hands, warm heart

MY PURPOSE BY: KEITH BARBOUR MY PURPOSE — For a long time I didn’t know what it was, so I had to sit back and really indulge, in my life experiences, and as I pondered the precious moments, and the vicious attacks, of people that I thought were my family and friends, whom lie to my face and stabbed me in my back, that phrase (blood is thicker than water) is played out and wacked, you can’t depend on man anymore, so open up your heart and let (Jesus) through the door.

MY PURPOSE — Is my (testimony) because my (Lord) will never leave me lonely, when everyone else disappeared and Faded away, my (Lord) was steadfast and carry me every day, and kept me safe through the cold lonely nights, because I know some people that walk their pitbulls at night and they love to bite.

MY PURPOSE — But when the up is down, nobody is around, no hugs no smiles no love to be found, and that’s when I realized they didn’t love me at all, to see their true colors I had to take a fall!!!

Everyone’s turned their backs on you; there’s nothing much left to Weighdo your options pros and Aconslife of violence and poverty is the Kidsnormfollow in the same footsteps; a heartbreaking cycle nothing is Veteransleft wander the streets

At least that’s what they say Coldness that rips through your chest and takes your breath away

MY PURPOSE — Is to tell how good (God) really is, He knows we’re flawed and are not perfect, that’s why He invented prayers because we are worth it, I can go on but I guess you get my drift, I just need you to know that my (Lord) is not a myth, He is our savior, a blessing, and a gift, and to be in His favor, that’s something you don’t want to miss, so when times are hard and when times are good keep praying to the (Lord) as you should.

Along with many who are Aspregnantlongas we’ve got a warm bed to sleep in what’s the difference So many fake compassion And pretend they care Must have made the wrong choices; that’s why you’re there

POETRY: UNCOVERED ISSUES

You might not have a voice But best believe I do I’ll speak for both of us until I’m hoarse and blue.

Conjures up a host of emotions

For many this is their fate Left home because you were mistreated; now you’re a victim of the Takestreetsyourkids to shelters

These are our communities; stand up and try to change it! We all make poor decisions

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Others write donation checks From big houses in the suburbs But they don’t wanna hit the streets and look you in the eye for what it’s worth There’s nothing wrong with Godmoneyknows we all need it to live It’s the absence of treating others as though they belong; castaways and You’dmisfitsbesurprised how far a smile goes And simply asking someone their Atnamethe end of the day we’ve all got the same blood in our veins

Hostility, anger and pity, now you’ve created quite the Beaten,conundrumrobbed and raped

Eyes avoid your gaze all day and all night

People are people And should be treated as such You have the power to turn someone’s day around by saying “what’s up?’ Don’t pretend but mean it Your phoniness easily detected

MY PURPOSE — Once (Jesus) is in a new life can begin, but first let me take you back, to when I realize my lifestyle and my life was under a vicious attack, you know when you’re up and everything is going good, and you come outside and everyone is smiling greeting you and saying you’re the man in the hood, wearing the latest clothes and smelling good, and taking women out to eat the finest food, you got a good job nice car and gold like Mr. T, everybody want to be my friend and around me.

VOICELESS BY: VANESSA FIORE

— Mao Tse-Tung, letter January 5, 1930. For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Every day I was all away from myself It was a man. Then I said Mamy I knew suddenly that there was a Thegod god must be good when I I’mdie sure in heaven. I started to love, I discovered the Theywomenare my door and my life They are so beautiful I was born for Love Woman gave love to Hoc that she loves me loves me endlessly I’m not good enough for her I cannot live without love she is so wonderfully infinite I cannot live without her love. Then I bought a pistol written this song of truth Of course, Without love no life. Up the administrator print in time

— German Proverb “Only the dead see the end of war.”

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— Bible Mark 8:37 “Whose bread I eat his song I sing.”

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