Formerly Homeless Man Invents Portable Shelters to Help Others

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Formerly Homeless Man Invents Portable Shelters to Help Others

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A formerly homeless Utah man has used his insight to create and build “survival pods,” or mini-shelters, to be doled out to people who currently have nowhere to live.

“I believe a person needs the dignity of something they can call their own, even if it’s only this,” Gary Pickering, a retired auto-body shop owner in Pleasant Grove, told TV news station KSL Tuesday.

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Pickering has constructed five of the pods, personally funding them at a cost of about $500 a piece, he said.

“I didn’t do this as a business, I don’t want a business. I want to inspire other people,” Pickering told KSL, explaining to Yahoo! Shine that he’s created how-to DVDs and photos to show folks with the money and the desire to build the structures for people who need them. Then, homeless people could either pay for them slowly, “so they can have some pride in it, and say ‘it’s mine,’” or make a formal lending agreement.


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http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/formerly-homeless-man-invents-portable-shelters-to-help-others-180959364.html

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1. This is true grass-roots help. Good for him! n/t