BOSTON: The success of a recent charity drive that tapped the social networks of youth has inspired a similar drive to raise funds for refurbishing poor, elderly people’s homes.
Called For a Golden Home, 24 students and young working adults, aged below 35, will each organize an event of his choice, ranging from a yoga day to photography print sales and a flea market. Each person can channel all or a portion of the proceeds to the cause.
For a Golden Home aims to raise $25,000 for non-profit housing organisation Habitat for Humanity’s Project HomeWorks, which renovates one-room rental flats where elderly folk live, often alone and in squalor because they are too frail to clean…