Firstly I’m really sorry I had to delete my last few post.
I was very depressed earlier this morning, but to be honest
it was someone that knew me as a homeless guy that really renewed my fire in
helping people.
You see when he knew me I was homeless with nothing and I
got an idea of asking a lot of people for clothes they didn’t want, toiletries
and food and started my first Homeless BBQ where we helped about 400 homeless.
It went on to doing BBQ’s every 8 weeks and a couple of years later turned into
a charity “Signal Flare” which is still going and doing events every 8 weeks.
I was depressed because I over the last few months I wanted
to start helping people in Papua New Guinea which is very much a 3rd
world country and only a few hundred kilometres away from Australian shores . I
went to my own charity and two others to ask for help. I was rejected and told
no. I felt like giving up and quitting.
No I asked and he don’t want me to mention his name so I’ll
call him “Tom”
Tom asked me if I had the same charities helping with the
first Homeless BBQ I did? I said no
Tom asked if I still did the Big Issue magazines for income.
I said Yes.
He went on to say how inspired he was just knowing me
because aside of all the spinal damage, being homeless, having nothing to my
name I still was so determined to make them BBQ’s happen just to help others.
He did say more but I don’t want a BIG head writing it, haha
He went on to ask why was I down because a few people don’t
want to support me in this project? My answer was easy “Because it’d be easier”
haha. “Then it wouldn’t be a project worthy of you mate. If it was easy others
would have already done it.”
Believe when I say I’m all fired up again and I’m going to
still help homeless and people need in Australia but I guarantee I am going to
get shipping containers, fill them with clothes, toiletries and canned food
then ship them and hand out everything for free to people who really are doing
things tough. Then I’m going put windows and a door in the shipping container
and give it for free to a family to live in.
Also I’m going to think of and help put some kind of
business’s together to hand to people to own and run as a means of earning
income. This seems hard right now but unless someone says let’s get it done it’ll
never get easier.
So I’m going back to my basics like I was before and being “Grant
the Polite Guy” a Big Issue vendor that helps people.
I’m going to make this post short because I have a lot of
calls to make.
I don’t believe one man can make a difference, but I believe
a lot of people can get help when a community comes together to say “I give a
shit and want to help.”
Thank you very much for reading my blog. I hope you all have
a great day. If you like my stories/writing please feel free to donate using
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Grant the Polite Guy
Grant Richards
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