Jamie Redmond sent Do1Thing the email below. We’ve been changed forever by this project and wanted to share this email with you.
I have to tell you, I feel that I have been forever changed because of this cause. After reading the article in the PEOPLE magazine, I felt a surge of emotion come over me. We visited Chicago this weekend and I saw countless people sitting on the subway trains and I wondered if they were homeless and just looking for a warm place to sleep, and after reading the article on these teenage kids, I realize that many of them probably were. I have vowed to take an active part in this campaign. My husband and I are not wealthy, but I am hoping to use contacts to network. I have 2 uncles that are professional photographers that, if they are not able to directly help, know many people all across the United States. And sometimes, just knowing the right person can make a big difference. I commend each and every one of you for your efforts in a large undertaking.
I think that there is so much focus on homelessness and hunger outside of the US that sometimes are own neighbors are being for
gotten. I truly hope that through exposure we will all be able to make a difference. We all take for granted be loved and cared for and I think that these kids need encouragement, a warm bed, a good meal, and…the icing on the cake, someone to show them that they are worth every bit of their existence. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for an eye-opening, life changing cause. Even though I am just discovery do1thing for the first time today, I feel empowered to help make a change.
And please, help Do1Thing raise funds for a traveling gallery by voting for us here, it will just take a few seconds and cost nothing!
