For the past few years now, as I have traveled, I have seen a wide array of people living on the streets. Tiny thai men living in tents on top of metals roofs down an ally in Bangkok , legless men in Antigua Guatemala who sweep the walk ways to former anthropology students who started out living on the street as a social experiment then ending up liking it.

This is a collection of men and women who I have interviewed over a nice lunch. I've always struggled with just giving money to these people, so I started taking these people out to lunch in exchange for an interview and some photos. Here is their story:

Friday, April 6, 2012

USGA

Recently I've met a lot of people at BYU who are going through this. It didnt really hit me until someone I am very close to confided in me that they were going through this very situation. What it did was help put myself in their shoes. When I put myself in their shoes and really think about what I would do. To think about a life without companionship is a really something that would scare me half to death.

I'd like to think before this I was always very understanding, but I have realized that what I took as understanding was really just me doing nothing.




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