HomelessGoPro co-founders Kevin F. Adler, Erika Barraza, Heather Warnken, and Adam Reichart.What’s it like to walk a mile in another man’…
Here, Adler discusses how life has changed for Adam, addresses the project’s critics, and reflects on the power of the “fragile, shared human experience.”
Is there an effort to help get Adam get off the streets?
Absolutely. We all agree, and Adam would say the same, that the wider goal is building empathy as an end in itself, and the transformative power of empathy is to get people more interested in supporting other service organizations, to be more likely to stop and speak and make donations, and to be able to better understand each other’s situations.
======================= the wider goal is building empathy as
an end in itself, and the
transformative power
of empathy
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