My Only Birthday Wish: Eliminate homelessness (1ª Parte Español/2nd Half English)

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Good morning everyone! It’s officially Monday, October, 17th and the time is 00:00, which means two things 1) It’s my 35th birthday and 2) it’s International Eradication of Poverty day. I’m not saying that there is a direct relationship, but it is a strange coincidence to say the least. As many of you might now, I’m a bigger fan of giving than receiving, and my birthday is no exception. Joseph Wresinski (1917–1988) founder of ATD Fourth World once said, “Wherever men and women are condemned to live in extreme poverty, human rights are violated. To come together to ensure that these rights be respected is our solemn duty.  I would like to invite everyone to come together today, on October 17th, no matter where you live in the world, be it Houston, Texas; Buenos Aires, Argentina; or Mumbai, India, and donate 1€ per month to #HomelessEntrepreneur via Patreon to help eradicate homelessness in Barcelona. Yes, I said a specific city and not the entire planet because that is where we are working right now, but it is the first seed of many that will spread across the world. I may be turning 35 today, but I feel like I’m turning 1 because it’s the number of people I’ve helped get off of the street so far. My goal is to turn 7 on October 17th, 2017, 31 on October 17th, 2018, 127 on October 17th, 2019 and 511 on October 17th, 2020. I like to dream big but I understand that every dream is built one wish at a time, which is why my one wish this year for my birthday is that every person who sees this video gives me the best birthday present ever by donating 1€/month to #HomelessEntrepreneur, so we can celebrate both my birthday and International Eradication of Poverty day through an action instead of mere words. Consciousness is the first step, but without action, nothing happens. My goal is to make the voice of the homeless heard, so I will spend my birthday speaking with homeless people in order to find out how society can help erase International Eradication of Poverty day off the calendar as soon as possible. Thanks for listening to me, for wishing me a happy birthday and most importantly for showing the rest of the world two things 1) “giving is the best way of receiving” and 2) my father was right when he said, “If you don’t offer anything to society, don’t expect anything from it.”

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#HomelessEntrepreneur currently has more than 55,000 contacts and 1,000,000 online views per month. We firmly believe that greater visibility will create more empathy and action amongst citizens around the world, which is why we are building #HomelessEntrepreneurs Global Partner network. If you are an individual, association or corporation that either works to end homelessness or wants to help us speed up the process to end it, please read the following requirements and contact us for further information.

Requirements

1. Believe that you can help us eliminate homelessness by providing a product or service.
2. Publish an article about what you are doing to help eliminate homelessness in our blog. You can either publish on a weekly, monthly or trimester basis.
3. Create a project with another entity in the #HomelessEntrepreneur Global Partner network i.e. Facing Homelessness and #HomelessEntrepreneur are creating a project called "International Homeless Conversations" to start a discourse between homeless communities around the world to break down barriers and stereotypes while opening up new opportunities through real conversations and black and white photography.
4. Add Partner's logo + link to web page
5. Follow partners in social media
6. Share/mention 1 partner per week in social media
7. Monthly Google Hangout brainstorming meeting (1h).

Our goal is to learn by working with organizations in other countries and sharing best practices so we can speed up the process of eliminating homelessness together!

If you fulfill these requirements and want to join the #HomelessEntrepreneur Global Partner network, please contact us to set up an interview with us.

If society cares, homelessness will disappear!

Are you a social journalist wanting to eliminate homelessness?

#HomelessEntrepreneur is giving everything to create more visibility for the homeless and consequently we would like to invite all social journalists to participate in the process of eliminating homelessness. If you are a social journalist and you want to contribute to create more visibility through written action, we encourage you to be part of our team as a social journalist collaborator.

Requirements

1. Believe that you can help us eliminate homelessness through social journalism.
2. Writing what you see on the streets is not a job but a way of life.
3. The principles and ethics of telling what you observe is more important than the editorial line that "you have to follow."
4. Create your own project to focus your articles in #HomelessEntrepreneur. For ex. "Interviews with homeless people on the street via Periscope," "Why homeless people enter the street," "The perception of homeless people according to citizens."
5. Share your articles in #HomelessEntrepreneur on your social networks and promote our initiative to help us grow together.

If you think you meet these requirements,  please contact us for an interview .

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