Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Homeless find hope in working on tv show
Ron Kenebrew is a former inmate that moved from Arizona to Minnesota. Once here he wonded up being homeless and wanted to make a change to that. He joined a local tv show network that is produced and presented by people who have been homeless and know exactly what it's like. This program is headed by Luis Alverenga, a former tv show and radio reporter in El Salvador. He created the show "Voices for Change" that accomplishes two things, giving a voice to the homeless and giving them hands-on training. Homeless men and women are able to take classes through the station to gain marketable skills. Kenebrew is a prime example of how this station works by his accomplishments in shooting vidoes for highschools and getting paid for it. Ted Dennis, the chairmen of the station, feels he most important thing to the station is that it is changing the way homelessness is viewed. Kenebrew feels that this station has opened the door to many opportunites for ethe homeless community as it did for him.
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