Today, Street Style Thailand asks you to touch lives of homeless people with your fingers. I got a degree in political science, but am interested in a social campaign. I unexpectedly wrote an article about creative social campaigns with Zero Sum Good 2 months ago and got a chance to visit a Food for Friends project. This project was created by a millionaire who had contacted the Mirror Foundation that he would open an almshouse. But the foundation suggested him to operate as a mobile car in different locations to help more people. Every Monday morning at the Giant Swing, 200 homeless people systematically were waiting to receive food and medicines when the car arrived. 

I got a chance to know P’G, working in corporate communication at the Mirror Foundation and suggesting me to know P”A. I tried to talk about my dream project after being inspired by the VinziRast campaign in Austria. That project had delivered a smartphone to a homeless guy to express his feeling and experience in his daily life with simple words.  

These were our conversations, which I saw possibility to make this project happen.  

 

Me: do you have a Facebook account?

P’A: I do 

(I was shocking for a moment because I did not expect that)

Me: Really. how do you do?

P’A: My literate friend signed up for me

Me: No. I mean what device do you use? 

P’A: This one

Me: wow! You use a better one than me. How did you get this? 

P’A: the owner gave me

Me: why did he do that?

P’A: he pitied me

Me: how did you connect to the Internet?

P’A: I could find an area or played at an Internet café

Me: Can I be your Facebook friend?   

P’A: (he pointed to his email and told me to find his account by typing his email. And that was my first time to find someone by email)

Me: Hey! Why do you use this name (อ้วน ระเบิดตูด)

P’A: it’s funny

(While I was looking at his Facebook, he showed me his profiles)

P’A: by the way, I play games

Me:  (Due to my curiosity, I surprised that he made a better score than I did.)

 

After that day, I started talking to P’A and hoped that this project would be done. But I needed time to be familiar with him.  

Every week, he said “hi” to me twice a week on Facebook. In addition, I was also surprised when he called me by Video Call. 

From this experience, I was thinking about that because he called me by Video Call many times without asking anything, which made me thought that people need more than just four requisites. They need a friend or someone to talk and listen.