{"id":2754,"date":"2017-02-24T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2017-02-23T06:33:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:33:06","slug":"these-formerly-homeless-men-look-like-models-on-fashion-runway-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/these-formerly-homeless-men-look-like-models-on-fashion-runway-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"These Formerly Homeless Men Look Like Models on Fashion Runway for Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GoodNewsNetwork.com shares:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six formerly homeless men in custom-tailored suits were given the chance to strut their stuff on the the catwalk as a way of raising money for the local homeless shelter that used to take care of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Runway to Change fashion show fundraiser, created by two creative communications students from Red River College, not only raised thousands of dollars for the Main Street Project shelter in Winnipeg; it served as a huge self-esteem boost for its rehabilitated models.<\/p>\n<p>The men, who\u00a0used to live at the shelter before being helped to turn their lives around, are now in transitional housing programs \u2013 but they never forget where they came from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBehind the curtain there, I was very nervous when I started hearing the hooting and hollering, [thinking] \u2018Oh my god, I don\u2019t know if I can do this,&#8217;\u201d one of the formerly homeless models told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/main-street-project-fashion-show-1.3965299\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a>. \u201cI kind of loosened up.\u2026 It was a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH the video <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2kQ9KjT\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by CBC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2kQ9KjT\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2kQ9KjT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodNewsNetwork.com shares: Six formerly homeless men in custom-tailored suits were given the chance to strut their stuff on the the catwalk as a way of raising money for the local homeless shelter that used to take care of them. The Runway to Change fashion show fundraiser, created by two creative communications students from Red River&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[553,552,192],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-news","tag-charity","tag-fashion","tag-homeless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}