I won’t make writing about unrelated issues a habit, for this is a professional massage blog. But today is an exception because it is Blog Action Day. Every year bloggers are challenged to make a difference by writing about a particular issue. Last year was the environment and this year it is poverty.
I have spent most of my life above the poverty level. Twice in my younger adulthood, I was unemployed. I was fortunate enough to have people who cared about me to help me through it. One thing I could do during those hard times to feel like I was making a difference, was to scrounge up the dollar to buy a Real Change publication. I was lucky those times were brief and I had skills to at least find temp work.
Many people are not that lucky.
Real Change is provided by a grass roots non-profit organization. This is a weekly activist publication written and distributed by the impoverished to benefit the homeless. Their mission is to create opportunity and a voice for low-income people while taking action to end homelessness and poverty. The focus is on empowerment not rescue. They started in Seattle in 1994. At first I just paid my dollar and threw the paper in the recycle bin feeling I had done my part. Now I read it and always find something worth well over the value of the low purchase price. Each month, more than 200 different vendors are out selling the paper throughout the Seattle area. You will know they are with Real Change by the Real Change badge they wear. When the opportunity arises please support this cause. Check them out http://www.realchangenews.org/
In a few hours I will post my regular massage blog. Thank you for reading, PJ Harris LMP http://www.pjharris.com/
