Today kicks off Homelessness Action Week in Vancouver!
As many of you know, Homelessness Action Week is where community organizers and volunteers hold special events for people who are homeless throughout Metro Vancouver municipalities throughout the week. Please come out and show your support during this amazing event that helps out the less fortunate.
I will be volunteering in North Vancouver this week, and will announce more details as soon as they are available. Also, I invite you to come and join me this Wednesday evening on the Eastside Stride, a guided tour though some of the areas downtown that have been affected by homelessness throughout the city’s history. To sign up, or for more information, please visit the site at http://www.ugm.ca/haw/.
The biggest action we are taking this year is to announce the development of our game, iBeg. It is our honest hope that when finished, this game will be used as a tool to allow people to donate to Vancouver charities on an ongoing basis. Most people donate a few times a year, around Easter and the holidays, but this application would hopefully keep the donations rolling in every month. The game takes a third-person view of a homeless character and as they purchase in-game items to help themselves out, a portion of that money is donated directly to charities that provide real help for people affected by homelessness. We strongly believe that this can become a legitimate way of fund-raising in the near future.
We are building a game that will bring awareness to the issue of homelessness in our city and provide people with a new means to donate funds to an issue we are committed to helping. What are you going to do?
May I suggest:
- volunteering your time at a local charity
- making a monetary donation to an organization like United Way or Covenant House
- donating food to a local food bank
- preparing a meal and delivering it to someone in need
This is really the second post, of yours I really browsed.
Although I really love this particular one, “Homelessness Action Week October 7th to 13th | Last Pick Productions” the most.
Thanks ,Nicolas
I’m 54, and I am faced with a predicament, technically I am already homeless, if it was for a friend that let’s me sleep as his house, I would be out on the streets in 5 months. If it wasn’t for someone giving me a chance to get on my feet and do something with my life, I might as well be out on the streets begging or scraping for food. Yes homelessness is a very serious is, all around the world, not just Canada and the United States. I lost my job for more then 5 years now and it’s hard for someone over 50 to find legitimate work now days, unless you have some kind of skill or craft. I’ve even talked to people with collage degrees and even collage professors who are, or going to be homeless. Yes it’s a big problem, and something does need be done about it. I once wanted to make a game about looking for a job, and maybe un-employment. But I thought people wouldn’t take it serous to ever bother about completing it, but you seem to have come up with a way to take a serous issue and make a game of it. When I saw or heard about the game SPENT, I thought it was a crazy Idea at first, but, people are always going to have something negative to say about everything. Even if it good for the community, or even the world, we learn to laugh at ourselves, even when faced with tragedies. Get back up on our feet’s, dust ourselves off a try something different all the time, until someone sees the light. I guess what I’m saying is, I wish I would have though about it, making it sooner then waiting for someone else to make. Well all I can say is good luck with the project, I know it’s about time that some took the plunge and made it a reality