Street Sights is a monthly newspaper that addresses homelessness issues in Rhode Island. Street Sights is affiliated with the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless and serves as a forum for homeless and formally homeless individuals, advocates, students, and state officials, to share accurate and honest information about homelessness issues. One section of the paper is dedicated to creative writing by homeless individuals. It turns out that this section of the paper is the most popular in the community. My role has been to help develop a book and a calendar that features creative writing and artwork of Homeless individuals that will be sold to raise money. We are creating the calendar first and want to have them available before the holiday season. The team is primarily homeless individuals. It is really exiting to have an opportunity to work directly with these individuals to help them create something they are very passionate about. I found that creative writing is an extremely popular outlet in the homeless community. Many individuals write a lot of poetry and enjoy reading work from others. There is no better way to learn about the struggles of being homeless than to read thier thoughts and experiences.
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