Comments on: Learning about the homeless – March 27, 2009 http://facklerfamily.org/2009/03/27/learning-about-the-homeless-march-27-2009/ Identify Your Fears And Break Through Them! Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:32:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Amit Chakradeo http://facklerfamily.org/2009/03/27/learning-about-the-homeless-march-27-2009/#comment-575 Amit Chakradeo Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:58:27 +0000 http://facklerfamily.org/?p=118#comment-575 Very interesting series of posts and the project. I admire your courage to approach the homeless and help them. Here are some questions that I have in my mind: Is your aim to learn about the homeless or is it to help them individually ? (Though I can imagine the ultimate goal of the first option would be to help them...) Are you sure they are not playing with you, now that they know you are doing this for some time ? Would you think it is possible to give them a portable voice or video recorder and ask them to record whatever they want to with the condition to give them more money next week ? It would be fascinating to learn if it works! I had mentioned the "hole in the wall" experiment that someone ran in New Delhi. (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/kids.html). Also, I would like to mention a book that I have on my to-read list which is written by an economist/researcher who spent many months with NY gangs to learn about them. http://www.sudhirvenkatesh.org/books/gang-leader-for-a-day Thanks for sharing your experiences! Amit Very interesting series of posts and the project. I admire your courage to approach the homeless and help them. Here are some questions that I have in my mind:

Is your aim to learn about the homeless or is it to help them individually ? (Though I can imagine the ultimate goal of the first option would be to help them…)

Are you sure they are not playing with you, now that they know you are doing this for some time ?

Would you think it is possible to give them a portable voice or video recorder and ask them to record whatever they want to with the condition to give them more money next week ? It would be fascinating to learn if it works!

I had mentioned the “hole in the wall” experiment that someone ran in New Delhi. (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/kids.html).

Also, I would like to mention a book that I have on my to-read list which is written by an economist/researcher who spent many months with NY gangs to learn about them. http://www.sudhirvenkatesh.org/books/gang-leader-for-a-day

Thanks for sharing your experiences!
Amit

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