Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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When was the last time you walked past a homeless person on the street, looked away, felt bad and guilty but did nothing? We think to ourselves “what can I do”?
Most of us would like to do something but don’t. Here is a chance to do something.
A new, intensely personal and optimistic film from award-winning director Lorna Tucker – Westwood:Punk, Icon, Activist; Call Me Kate – delves in the causes of rough sleeping and shows how to stop it.
By supporting the film’s distribution you can help it become the rallying point for a campaign to get the policies we need to end homelessness once and for all.
Lorna Tucker used to live on the streets of London so she brings a unique perspective to her film. Earl Charlton slept rough for 20 years and was a drug addict; today he is clean and is a support worker in Tyneside helping to keep people off the streets. He is the main character in Lorna’s film – Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son.
When the film was shown at a film festival last year one reviewer said it was a “humanizing odyssey into homelessness in the UK …… that challenges us to recalibrate our assumptions about social documentaries, as well as people who are homeless.” In other words – nothing like what you have seen before: it is the authentic voice of those who live on the streets, it shows what can be done to help get people off the streets, featuring projects in Glasgow, London and Barrow in Furness, as well as Tyneside. It is supported by four of the main organizations working to stop homelessness – Crisis, Shelter, The Big Issue Group and the Connection at St Martins.
The film is completed, including a specially composed song by Bryan Adams. Now is the time for the film to be seen. In June the groups working at the frontline of homelessness warned the government that it was going to miss its target to end homelessness. In the same month, the Prince of Wales’s Royal Foundation launched its pilot Homewards project to provide affordable housing for the homeless, with Prince William saying “In a modern and progressive society, everyone should have a safe and secure home, be treated with dignity and given the support they need.”
As of September 18th, this project has raised $6,500 of their $37,158 goal. This project has 49 days left to raise the $37,158 or it will not be funded. For a pledge of $13, you will get a social media shoutout. For a pledge of $28, you will get a streaming link to the film. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1730748997/someones-daughter-someones-son?
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