Homelessness Awareness

[strummer1able]

Amanda, I have written and recorded a song to raise awareness of this issue, it is called "Drifting" and is steadily getting viewed on youtube. I wonder if you or anyone else wants to check it out. "Strummer1able" is the channel. I wrote the song after visiting London. Hope you like the song. Good luck....

[ltc818]

Amanda, I tried to purchase this song on iTunes but could not find it. Can you help me find where to purchase it. We would like to use it as a theme song for the Fort Lauderdale Homeless Initiative. Bless you.

[ltc818]

Great Work, very moving. Appreciate your efforts

[84lfaithgirl]

been there... how dare anyone make fun of homelessness , its not funny. stay in a shelter for one week.

[TVFOGGED]

Those that help homeless do nothing to actually solve the problem. There is only enough houses for the special people who help homelessness. Think about it. There should be 0% homelessness. Too many people and everyone is for greed.

[LadyRose669]

BLESS YOU SISTER!! MAY GOD BLESS YOUR PRECIOUS SOUL!!

there are a few of us who really hurt for these people... and we need to stick together.. you are not selfish.. please do not conform to the ignorance that made it possible for the homeless to be that way.. you are going a great job!!

this video makes me cry b/c it is true!!

sincerely

Nadine Andersen

Vice President

Les Sans Abri

homeless no more

[TheCyoruk]

Those who help homeless are special people.

[welovemandy]

I am 50 years old and every person who has ingratiated themselves into my life has taken everything and left devastation in their wake

I wonder if it was worth surviving at all ..

[mukapuka]

please dont give up, you have to fight. and live another day. because you will find tomm. is better than today. please dont give in.fight!!!

[MegaCrazycatt]

@mukapuka I believe what you are saying; but when you are waking up to the same s**t every day and you see how nothing is going to ever get better; its really hard.

[d4t4dr4in]

you cant give up hope, if you walk with the lord he will guide you and comfort you

[beyzasmum]

are you still in the same situation darl? i would like to assisgt where i can...please people dont be quick to judge...its such an ugly world we live in where the homeless are invisible and life seems to go on if only eveyone helped, they will be heard and seen...

[welovemandy]

I am on the verge of this FYI

My rent has gone up so much i cant afford to live here anymore

I have no family to help me they are all deceased

I am walking around right now looking at what I can sell and wondering what i can get for it

I have no work and cant get a job at this time

I had a major stroke a few years ago and have needed time to recover.. It cost everything i had

I just cant work the way i used to i have other illnesses

[CupisHomines]

i really hate it when people in this country whine about 'homelessness' and (lack of) 'healthcare'. Given the plights of other nations and peoples throughout it's really not that big of a deal if you don't have that luxury apartment or whatever.

[yayafoamygirl]

I really hate assholes who believe they are above it all. I made this video because a friend of mine in Australia asked me too. She wrote and sang this song, and she asked me to do the montage because I've been homeless with two kids, and I worked my ass off to get out of that situation that their father left us in. When my children's father left us, I only worked part-time and couldn't make rent so I got evicted.

[yayafoamygirl]

I didn't know he was going to leave us, no warning he was going to take all the money and leave me with nothing but two scared little kids. The plights of other nations is not America's problem, we have our own that we need to take care of first and foremost. When our people are taken care of, then maybe we can help other people. If you can't understand or sympathize with that, then your one heartless cold bastard, and a complete waste of oxygen.

[CupisHomines]

Yes. I am a cold-hearted bastard. You wouldn't be able to hack it in the congo or in 17th century america. No electric heat or running water. Wah. What a fuckin' travesty!

Why yes it is. If it weren't for Americans in the first place, they wouldn't be in that mess to begin with. So cry to somebody else.

[yayafoamygirl]

Ooooh soo scary big man behind the damn computer thinks he is bad ass. Know what? You're not. The real travesty is how completely idiotic your comments are. Shows a complete lack of a proper education. You were probably raised by some damn worthless racist, or Nazi wanna-be or worse yet someone just like you, a complete waste of oxygen. I could care less if you've roughed it in the congo, until you've lived in the real world, among real people you don't know jack shit.

[CupisHomines]

A lack of 'proper education'. Oh really?

I never said I was a big, scary man behind a computer. That's your imagination. Completely.

As if being a nazi or a racist is some kind of crime. Sue me. Krijg de kanker!

Well, contrary to your current dose of stupidity, I have. So i do know Jack Shit, and Jack Shit says that those people are just hobos put there for show. That's all.

[CupisHomines]

And if you think i'm a cold-hearted bastard -- which might be true -- I think you need to look in the mirror. You sound way more selfish than I've been so far. The only reason you posted this vid was because it pertained to you, right? You can ignore this if you want, I don't care. Won't be back.

[yayafoamygirl]

yeah I posted it cause it meant something to me, why do you post vids? Your vids are useless to some people, but you still post them. Do you get jackasses (like yourself) mocking your vids or say stupid shit like what you said here? Probably not, but you obviously came here looking to start trouble, and like I said you're just a complete waste of oxygen if you think this video really only means something to one person. Google Amanda McKenna and Homelessness awareness, and see what you find.

[yayafoamygirl]

other people do care, it is important, because it shouldn't be happening. I talked to a lot of different homeless people, and most don't want to be there, but who's going to hire someone who is homeless? As for being selfish, your wrong on that one, doing vids like this or of better quality is something I like doing and I could easily have charged to make this vid, but I didn't. I took time out of my life free of charge to take photos, talk to people, and piece this together with proper timing

[yayafoamygirl]

it took me weeks to get this done, I easily could have charged my normal fee of 300, but I didn't. I did this for free and at a time when I still needed the money. So go ahead and call me selfish, the only selfish one here is you to knock something cause it made you think about the world we all have to live in and you didn't like it, because it's not pretty, so you used a smart ass comment to make someone feel bad, and they fought back.

[yayafoamygirl]

You're just a loser with no life who needs to just go away and leave good people alone. You'll be back though cause you NEED to get the last word in. I can tell just by how you're responding with more idiotic things to say than the last post you wrote.

[breezyree73]

wat is the point of this video

[JohnDoeHomeless]

Be aware... the world needs more wares!

[yayafoamygirl]

the point of the video is to bring awareness to the plight of the homeless, not to just ignore it. It won't go away if you do, it will only get worse.

[bop2u]

Amanda McKenna's voice is so powerful......her heart is heard thoughout this song..... WOW!

[gatita0281]

This song is just fantastic, and the visuals are very moving. Of course I have been an Amanda McKenna fan for a very long time, but I think this may be my favorite song of hers ever!!!

~Catherine