Factors at the individual, community, and structural level generate challenges that both contribute to homelessness and dehumanize street people. Working with Service Dining Rooms (SDR), a soup kitchen in Cape Town's Central Business District, we created a space to celebrate human dignity, establishing art and music programs, collecting personal stories, and connecting SDR guests to other services through resource mapping. We worked with street community members and four co-researchers to implement sustainable outcomes throughout the project.

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Creator

• Desjardins, Elizabeth Lauren
• Rodriguez, Briana Marie
• McGinnis, Aaron Christopher
• DeRubeis, Drew David

Subject

• Health
• Infrastructure
• Community
• Inclusion
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121815-032829

Mot-clé

• Community development
• Sustainable development--Environmental aspects
• Sustainability

Advisor

• Bulled, Nicola
• Jiusto, Scott

Year

• 2015

Center

• Cape Town, South Africa Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Service Dining Rooms

Date created

• 2015-12-18

Emplacement

• Cape Town

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright