On the Road to Beautiful

Homeless mom prepares her daughter for school

This photo by Gautam Basu is an entrant for the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year award. Several dozen additional entrants are posted in a gallery at the Telegraph.

(via TYWKIWDBI)

Paris 2011: Homeless World Cup

The Homeless World Cup kicked off its ninth annual tournament on Sunday, bringing together people from 48 countries who are homeless and socially marginalized, according to the tournament’s website. While participants commit the week to the sport, an exercise organizers believe can inspire players to turn their lives around, a three-day international conference to brainstorm ways to eliminate homelessness will take place on the sidelines, the Herald Sun reports.

“The Homeless World Cup exists to end homelessness,” co-founder Mel Young, a Scottish social entrepreneur, wrote on the event’s website. “It has engaged over 100,000 homeless people since it started with participants changing their lives for the better.”

More about the tournament here.

More photos on the Homeless World Cup’s Flickr.

(via The Huffington Post)