“Creative ways to tread water”: Spotlighting Digital Panhandling
Written by admin2 on October 28th, 2009Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal, Campaign Watch, Irked Videos
Cyberbeg.com offers hope, by providing a way for homeless people to connect with potential donators. Think of it as a website dedicated to tangibly helping people. Before the emergence of “digital panhandling,” homeless people had no way of broadcasting their need for help to a large audience. After two years of posting cyber begs, the site has raised almost $23,000 for its members.
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Here’s a corresponding news segment from David Abel’s outstanding feature for Boston.com:
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