[homeles_ot-l] Ask Me Story: Journalist Meg Wilcox discusses her reasons for getting involved

[Derek Antoine]

This week, journalist Meg Wilcox discusses her reasons for getting  
involved in the homelessness community through the Ask Me Campaign.  
Read the full story here!

"As a journalist, I've seen the circumstances in which many homeless  
people live and spoken to those who live that reality. But equally  
relevant to this discussion is the people working to help. From my  
chats with front-line workers, they're working long hours on minimal  
funding to try and maintain basic levels of human rights and human  
dignity for a sector of society that many would largely prefer to  
ignore.

A few years ago, I interviewed a man who had just been provided an  
apartment through the John Howard Society in Kamloops. I remember  
looking around the modestly furnished apartment — mostly secondhand  
donations — and noticing his carefully-placed Christmas decorations.  
But what I will never forget is how he told me that, when he moved in,  
he spent the first two days crying because he didn’t think he deserved  
such a nice apartment of his own.

I care because I hope that, were I in the same situation, I would be  
treated with the same dignity, respect and consideration that these  
organizations serve our most vulnerable people." Read the rest of the  
story here.

- Meg Wilcox, Journalist, Ask Me Campaign Committee


- Keep the momentum going! Share your story here: askmeottawa at gmail.com
- Wear the Ask Me button proudly!
- Forward this story to a friend! 
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