A Newspaper With a Business Model to Help the Homeless
24 February 2011
Veeda Simpson, on scooter, has been selling Street Sense for four years. She was homeless before becoming a vendor.
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I'm Doug Johnson.
This week we play music by Gorillaz ...
And answer a question from Vietnam about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...
But first, we tell about a Washington, D.C., newspaper of the homeless, by the homeless and for the homeless.
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Street Sense
DOUG JOHNSON: Street Sense is a newspaper in Washington, D.C. about homeless people and issues that affect them. Homeless, or formerly homeless, Washingtonians write many of the articles. The newspaper’s business model is based on homeless vendors who sell the newspaper. You can hear them call out “Street Sense for sale!” near subway entrances, lunch places and other areas around the city.
Mario Ritter has more.
MARIO RITTER: The Street Sense newspaper is housed in an office in a Christian church in Washington. Every other Wednesday about fourteen thousand copies are printed. The newspaper expresses the thoughts and experiences of people who call the streets home.
Four staff members work at Street Sense. Two of them are paid. The staff members write the first two pages of the paper. Interns -- students working as part of their studies -- and volunteers help. Homeless writers provide the rest of the material. This includes poems, stories and essays.
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