Steemit Crowdfunding; Can it help to save one Steemian from Homelessness?
Maybe you are cynical, and think "someone is on a scam for money." But consider that with wealth comes pride; pride that talks and says "I don't need your money" and "I can afford this" I have sent 20 steem to one Steem membr who is on the verge of homelessness.
L0k1 hasn't asked me to do this, to post this. Homelessness is an issue that largely effects males. Women are homeless too, yes, but often the equivalent is that women becme stuck with an abuser and can't leave for financial reasons. We should not turn a blind eye to this issue. There are many reasons someone suffers this fate, and I have heard many people on Steem share their experiences of facing homelessness. So let's help someone, so they can at least withstand the upcoming winter.
Steemit has done much to promote how it has helped people in 'non-western' nations make the equivalent of a weeks pay in lesser time. So let's show the power of cryptocurrency by how it can help to keep someone off the street.
L0k1 is regular contributer to Steemit who helps grow the community. He has many followers, tho most with little SP. This is a man who will continue to post and grow the community, and bring value back in return. Should that matter anyway?
He is not looking for your pity, as I said, he has not asked me to do this. I just think that with the number of people on Steemit we can easily make his situation better through small individual donations, and make this a cryptocurrency/Steemit success story.
So please resteem, and transfer 1 SBD or 2 Steem, or what you personally can afford to l0k1. with our combined effort we can help one person change around their situation.
Resteem. Thank you :)
Thankyou to @radioactivities, @andrarchy, @robrigo, @thecryptofiend, @stephmckenzie
I can certainly now dress properly for the weather, and I will be heading to Amsterdam directly, where I will set about working on getting myself a benefit payment (it's probably going to take a few months to organise, based on past experience) and then sort out my living situation.
I am networking also and there is people who are talking about putting together a working group based in Amsterdam for Steem development, so maybe after steemfest I'll have a job and more formal living situation.
It's not so bad here, the landlord is nice and he just got a big load of money selling his other house in Varna. He'd probably let me stay on for quite some time yet but I got given a ticket to the steemfest and I feel it is my duty to attend and rub shoulders with my peers, and see what is going on and who wants to do what and if there's anything I can do to join that.
I will certainly be updating everyone on a regular basis, and I think I can also shine a light on the situation in the netherlands as regards to homelessness and the ridiculous housing situation they have there. I've been there before but the benefit of experience means I'll not have all the big hard obstacles in front of me that I had the first time around, a complete stranger to it all.
I am so grateful that steem exists and for all the great people it has brought together... I really do believe that is what Steem is actually for, to gather people, to build a new way of doing things, at least for us, and maybe we'll just manage to change some of the world for the better.
@l0k1 Hey mate,
I don't know what happened to you, I don't know exactly what you are going through. (Could you link me to something so that I get a better idea?)
But I think I am in similar shoes like you right now.
I've been kicked out of the place where I was staying. I can't afford to pay rent. If I stay where I am right now (Germany) I can afford to eat for a month I believe. Hopefully maybe get some contracts on Upwork (for pennies as I am just starting) so I can sustain myself longer.
And in the meantime, I sleep outside, and sometimes in the bathroom of a library :D
I have a mat and a sleeping bag, so I might be better prepared than you. (Though the temperature is dropping under 0 so that shall be interesting :D).
Though what I really want to say is, you will be fine. I even wrote a post about this recently. [And How this can shape you and how Stoicism can help)
Keep on going, mate.
You are not alone
It's odd, I have lived pretty poor most of my life and yet when I fell onto the street, I still never really felt like, I can't explain it, it's like in my mind I am just watching it and like I am a tourist, in the sense like from Fight Club with the support groups...
I have just got a few hiccups in the process, people have given me enough money that I can get the basics I need, and go to Amsterdam in preparation for the SteemFEST. I miss my old backpack...
That's it to the back and to the right... it was defrauded out of me by a homeless guy I met who was just a couple of months out of jail, just before I got off the street for a while with a job in about April this year. I don't think I have quite enough money to replace it (though I may, it's not so important right at the moment).
That photo is of the underground power distribution room that I slept in for about 3 months through the winter, temperatures in there never got below about 5 degrees so I was pretty well most of the time. No lighting in there though, and as winter was thawing out, they blocked up the whole tunnel where it was located.
I should be able to find at least the clothes I will need to get through the time between arriving in Amsterdam and because I know all the services there for homeless folk, I won't be in as difficult a situation as I was this last winter, and with SteemFEST coming up, maybe I'll even find some work in a new project.
I know exactly what you are going through man, it's rough, and it's my own experiences that make me such an avid advocate of Steem - I see this as a way of bringing a little piece of justice and freedom to the world, and people with good ideas but no assets have a chance of getting noticed and being able to get by. We have stories, and with our knowledge and experiences, the ability to tell them, thanks to Steem, and so maybe things will get better quite quickly.
I followed you and I want to wish you the best and I hope that you also can find ways to better your situation.
Yea, I understand that.
To me that says you are most likely content with what's happening to you. You don't suffer mentally. Or maybe you are just disattached, which in a way is exactly the same thing.
So where are you now? From the posts I looked into, it seems you are in Bulgaria? It should be warmer there, no?
I am thinking of going to Spain for winter.
And Amsterdam is colder, and more expensive.
So I really hope something nice comes up for you.
Thank you, I did the same. I'm curious about what's gonna happen and how it'll play out for you.
It is warmer here, although I am in the coldest part of bulgaria, but i have a ticket given to me for steemfest and while for a month or so i will be camping in a park somewhere (I know a spot the police never give tickets and the neighbours don't snitch on you - this is a big problem in the Netherlands, nosy frickin neighbours), around the middle of december they open up a shelter for homeless people in the winter, and as well as that, by staying there, i satisfy a requirement for signing on for a welfare benefit.
This is the worst case scenario, but then I could live frugally for a few months, just buy steem and power it up, and by about late february/march I could just head back to Bulgaria, with a big powerdown that can pay a rent bill with it (and I would have plenty to write about as well as some nice hash regularly to amuse myself and fuel the creativity)... Or something.
I am planning to come back to Bulgaria to settle, I just need enough money to do it. Hopefully the SteemFEST will bring people into my circle who have the capability and interest in starting up a steem developer hub and I would be able to work, I am not that great at coding, yet, but I will be working on developing that while I am hanging out at the drop in centres, and I can of course do administration of computer systems, building, running, monitoring servers, as well. I have no idea what will happen, so I just have a contingency for if nothing pans out that is acceptable...
what is your email for google hangouts?
[email protected]
Is there a specific reason you don't just get a job?
@radioactives
Consider yourself followed and supported. Please contact me at [email protected] on google hangouts to discuss making this an ongoing thing.
hey @radioactivities - next time you do something kind like this - consider using my tag positivity :) I'm upvoting this and resteeming it with as much power as I have available to me!!
Remember it's all about the power of belief aka Faith.
This seems like a positive effort, I hope he gets the support he needs here.
so far @andrarchy and @thecryptofiend have sent some funds to l0k1 :) Thank you for upvoting
thank you for the upvotes, so far I have sent 5 more SBD to L0k1
Done. I like @l0k1. He's a nice guy, and we've had some good conversations. I didn't have much to give, but I'm happy to help where I can. I hope it does him some good.
What is homelessness though? If one has a family to take care of, having no money could be detrimental to such a person. And, I know I could not speak for the hardships of such a situation, and would most likely give more than half of what I have to help in such a situation. I once paid for housing around ~600SD a month, because someone told me it would be a good investment to have a comfortable place to lay my head. After experiencing a failure of this investment, I have chosen never to invest more than 150SD a month on a place to lay my head for myself. Yes, the quality does fit the price. But, I'm not going to let location, conveniences or surroundings convince me to give excessive amounts of money to rich people who have no idea what it is like to work for the good of the people around them.
I'm not sure what you mean. Homelessness is a noun/descriptive, yes, the man I speak of is in a rough situation. Family or no. Many people have killed themselves (and their dependents, even) over feeling as a failure to their family, with no hope for a better day; usually men. This is just not this situation.
Love da @l0k1, but this is in memory of: @endgame and @noscope - the exiled Steemers!! https://steemit.com/steemit/@mindhunter/the-steemit-mask-of-anarchy-an-adaptation-by-mindhunter
Wish you well. have done the same at some points in my life. By choice living mostly in the woods. Then also not as much by choice after getting Meningitis. We all just have to make the best with what we have... which is everything! :)