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New StoryCorps Interview on KUOW: “No One Really Chooses to Be Homeless”

"Up until I was about like 7 I thought that everyone basically had a home and was pretty much safe all the time," Thandi tells her grandfather, Desmond, in a StoryCorps interview. "But then I learned that some people don’t really have a home, and it made me want to do something." Image credit: StoryCorps
"Up until I was about like 7 I thought that everyone basically had a home and was pretty much safe all the time," Thandi tells her grandfather, Desmond, in a StoryCorps interview. "But then I learned that some people don’t really have a home, and it made me want to do something." Image credit: StoryCorps
"It’s one thing to empathize with people and it’s another thing to do something about it," Desmond Pullen says to his granddaughter in the newest StoryCorps "Finding Our Way" interview, which airs on KUOW today. The pair talk about their efforts to help families at a shelter in Everett.

“Giving People My Story Makes Them Stronger”: The Power of StoryCorps

In a StoryCorps interview that you can hear on KUOW today, the Gilliards talked about falling into homelessness with their three children. Photo by StoryCorps, graphic by Lindsey Habenicht.
In a StoryCorps interview that you can hear on KUOW today, the Gilliards talked about falling into homelessness with their three children. Photo by StoryCorps, graphic by Lindsey Habenicht.
Fearing judgment from a society that stigmatizes poverty, the Gilliards kept their experience with homelessness secret -- until the day their story aired on NPR. Read about the consequences of that broadcast, and listen to their StoryCorps interview, which airs today locally on KUOW.
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