Needs List

Support homeless empowerment projects such as NFOS by helping all you can with volunteering of your time and services such as...

We seek more talented writers, editors, artists, cartoonists, etc, who will share in our vision of this publication to join our staff.

We seek funding to be able to put and keep our paper in print. We need to become a 501c3 to be able to do so.

Offering donated services, such as office space, computers, phones, faxes, supplies..etc.

Postage services for our mailing lists.

Printers, who will donate their services in the form of printing business cards for the staff of the paper and to print the paper. (if only for a short while)

Silk screeners who will donate free shirts, T-shirts and hats, key chains, with our logo on them, to help introdce the paper through a promotional campaign.

Donated transportation: so we can deliver and distribute the paper.

We are in the most need of getting this paper published, so, donations are encouraged.
To inquire regarding making donations to NFOS, contact:

News from our Shoes©
Michael Watkins, Editor
220 Snow Ave
Raleigh, NC 27603
(919) 827-0772

This list is just in the beginning stages and will surely grow, so, where you can help eliminate the items on this list, please feel free to do so, by contacting the paper at the aforementioned information.

The homeless popualtion

We need to be more appreciative to those who come to provide services to us. Think about it...those fine folk, who serve us, owe us ...nothing !!! Yet, we treat providers as if it is their job to provide for us, when it is our own. If we tried to do for ourselves, instead of always looking for a handout, we may find that our situations are only as bad as we allow them to be.

Stop using the Internet for ridiculous chat rooms and internet games; which have no educational value at all...instead, I challenge you to learn of your civil rights. Even as a homeless person, you still have rights and you need to know what they are. You would be surprised in what you find out.
Don't wait around for me or other advocates to go to bat for you, learn of these things and stand up for yourselves. Your voices are more powerful than you realize, if you only learn how to use them, so spread the word to your peers and unite as one and start attending City Council and Wake County Board of Commisssoner's meetings that have direct effect on you and speak out.

Stand up....for yourselves. It will accomplish more than you think it will.