Rethink Homelessness asked homeless friends to write down a fact about themselves that other people wouldn’t know just by walking past them. This video has their answers.

There are times that we all think about what we’ve built up for us and our family, and how we are really only one major or minor life tragedy away from losing it all. We’ have to keep in mind that homelessness does not define a person, but rather it is a residential status. We ought to learn to see what secrets some homeless people hold and maybe see them as people in need of assistance, and not as problems that need to be swept away. And this video serves to us as a reminder that there’s more we can do to help, because it wouldn’t take much for us to end up in trouble. These are our neighbors. This is our community too. These are American citizens.

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