Giving sandwiches, voice to homeless
Justin Doering has been traveling the U.S. for the past three months, listening to what the nation’s homeless population has to say.
His goal with the project, Fifty Sandwiches, is to humanize the homeless. He approaches people living on the street or in homeless shelters and offers to buy them a sandwich if they’ll share their story with him.
“Think Humans Of New York from the unheard and unknown, with a touch of narrative to make the reader feel like they are the ones sitting down for a chat,” Doering wrote in an email to The Press in April.
Doering said the idea came to him in high school when he started visiting a homeless shelter in Coeur d’Alene twice a week with one of his mentors. During his time there he realized the people he met didn’t match the stereotypical profiles of a homeless person/Bethany Blitz, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.
