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Daughtery is one of about 120 vendors who sell Spare Change newspapers produced by the Homeless Empowerment Project (HEP), a Cambridge-based organization that aims to provide opportunities for homeless people to earn their own income and enhance their business skills...
...wide range of material, from homeless-related news to movie reviews, poetry, and editorials. Writers come from all walks of life. Some, who are not homeless, volunteer their efforts, while homeless writers receive a stipend of about $50 per article, according to Samuel Weems, one of two overseers of Spare Change distribution...
...profit HEP was founded in 1994 to support the production of Spare Change. The newspaper publishes about 10,000 copies of each of its biweekly issues, and all profits go directly toward funding the production of future issues, Weems says...
...They don’t work for Spare Change, they work for themselves,” Weems says. “They’re self-employed. They’re empowering themselves...
Since the organization is flexible, Weems says, the number of vendors varies each day. Although there are about 120 individuals on Spare Change’s list, on average only about 80 buy papers from the office each week...