Building Communities: Working Out The Details
Vera M -
This week, I started thinking of all my final details and how I want to finish up my project. I am working on finishing up my brochure. This project began as a simple idea to highlight the issue of trash buildup in areas where unhoused people live, but it became so much more personal along the way.
My time at Casa Maria has changed the way I see my community. The abundance of trash left isn’t just statistics or faceless problems. The people I try to help do not deserve to be treated worse or denied healthcare by larger parties. There’s something powerful in the kind of connection I made with some of the unhoused patients, and something I hadn’t expected to feel so deeply when I started.
As I work out the final pieces of this project, I’m not just thinking about what looks good on paper. I’m thinking about how to keep this conversation going and how to inspire others to care, to act, or even just to pay attention. I hope this project opens people’s eyes a little, the way this experience has opened mine. And even though the deadlines are near, I know this isn’t the end of the work for me. It’s just the beginning.
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