Celebration Roof Over Your Head Day December 3, 2020
At the end of a long day, there 19s nothing quite like coming back to a warm house, with family and friends. When you 19ve been working, or its cold outside, or even when you 19ve just gone out for a walk, home is the place you dream of coming back to.
But for some people that 19s not an option that exists, there is no roof over their head to come home to. Roof Over Your Head Day reminds you to take a moment to appreciate the fact that you have a place to hang your hat, or if you don 19t, to keep working for that most important of dreams.
History of Roof Over Your Head Day
Born out of a response to the number of homeless people that are out there, even in highly developed first world countries, Roof Over Your Head Day serves to bring awareness to the fact that there are so many people out there who don 19t have this basic need.
100 million people are estimated to not have a roof over their head, and of those that do, 1.6 billion are seen as having inadequate housing for themselves and their family.
What Roof Over Your Head Day really is, is a call to charity and social awareness. Homelessness is a real problem, but it can be overcome. There have been a lot of creative moves made to help alleviate this problem, with one notable method being rolled out in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The city discovered it was paying $20,000 a year to handle their homeless issue, including policing, arrests, healthcare, jail time, just to name a few. So instead they built homes they could put their homeless into for just $7,800 a year. Since then, homeless in the city has dropped by 72%, all while saving the town money.
How to Celebrate Roof Over Your Head Day
The best way to celebrate Roof Over Your Head Day is to get out there and start being a solution to the homeless problem. Sure, there aren 19t many of us who could actually afford to house the homeless on our own, but there are steps we could take to help motivate our leaders to do it. After all, look at the numbers above in Utah, those numbers ring true across the United States, and in fact across the world.
You can also take presents off the giving trees that are often put up at Christmas, or just drop a few dollars in the cup of the next homeless person you pass. Roof Over Your Head Day is about giving others opportunity, and being thankful for what we have.
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