Two posts in a row!
Nonprofit group comes to homeless family’s aid
From Latimes.com: Bessie Mae Berger, 97, and her son Charlie in their Chevy Suburban. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
This story isn’t exactly current. It’s about a month old. But I came across this original story of 97-year-old Bessie Mae Berger, who was homeless. The story and the video especially brought tears to my eyes as I imagined this woman spending every night in the front seat of an old car, longing for a warm bed, while her two sons who take care of her sleep in the back. (The video is also quite well done. I guess I enjoy more than ever looking at videos and slideshows thanks to our Media Production Tools class.) I searched the story online to find it again, when I found that thanks to the story, the three of them did find a home. Even though their living arrangements are temporary right now, it’s just a lovely reminder of what telling someone’s story can do.
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November 19, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I don’t know whether to cry or hit something. Very powerful — thanks for sharing. This is truly community journalism, and you can see it’s being practiced by a big city paper. At its best, community journalism connects us with one another. Across economic, social and cultural levels, we can share one another’s stories. Soundslides lends an authenticity and pathos to this story that you could not get through either a printed story only, or even through a video, I think.