The range of challenges faced by the homeless makes providing services to meet needs difficult. This project involved interactions with guests at Service Dining Rooms (SDR), Cape Town, South Africa, to gain insights on service provision. While services are available, there are significant barriers to access. In addition to feelings of discomfort and shame, the homeless indicated minimal awareness of the available resources in the area. To address this, we created a resource map to clearly indicate services available to the homeless to be posted at SDR and a flyer advertising SDR's services for distribution. Through a continued process of self-reflection, we recognized that initial feelings of discomfort around the homeless were replaced by feelings of empathy, compassion, and humility.

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Creator

• Bernard, Marissa A
• Thodhoraqi, Nasjela
• Graham, Alden
• Taylor, Cote

Subject

• Well-Being
• Culture
• Health
• Inclusion
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-120916-073850

Keyword

• Food security
• Equality
• Marketing

Advisor

• Bulled, Nicola
• Agloro, Alexandrina R.

Year

• 2016

Center

• Cape Town, South Africa Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Service Dining Rooms

Date created

• 2016-12-09

Location

• Cape Town

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-11-27