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24th Apr 2014

Poignant: Watch As Relatives Walk By Family Members Disguised As Homeless People On The Streets

Powerful social experiment urges people to change how they view the homeless.

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Would you walk past a family member if they were homeless? The answer to that question would be for the majority of us a resounding ‘no’, however this next video proves that there is a lot in that we just don’t see.  

A social experiment, ‘Make Them Visible’,  decided to disguise family members as homeless folk out on the streets of New York in a bid to show the public just how easy it is to pass someone in need by.

Unsuspecting people walked by their beloved relatives and when confronted with the footage some were moved to tears.

Have the homeless become invisible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6jSKLtmYdM
Video via YouTube/New York Rescue Mission