Taylor Little is a Detroit teen with a big dream to help the homeless in her US town.
Blacdetroit.com interviewed Little, a 2016 IB graduate of Harrison High School in Farmington Hills, about her community-service foundation – the Temple Project. Her foundation works with organizations such as The Philip House Mission, South Oakland Shelter and Alternatives for Girls, to provide hygiene products, clothes, and necessities to homeless people.
As part of Little’s IB Diploma Programme studies, she completed a Creativity, action, service (CAS) project and became passionate about the needs of homeless people and how she could provide support. As the Blacdetroit states, “The body is a temple, but not everyone has the resources to treat it that way.” Little drew her inspiration from her experience of growing up in a low-income family and the many conversations she has about politics, “sometimes we talk about how desensitized people are to the homeless. We see them on the streets, and we don’t really do anything. So I decided that would be my focus.”
Little overcame obstacles at the beginning of her project to obtain menstrual products and distribute them to homeless people, and discovered that people want to help but most of the time they don’t know how to. She began her project by generating community donations via a social media campaign and a blog called Afropunk, a blog dedicated to punk rock culture among Black fans of the genre. Afropunk dedicated a blog to Little that was viewed by thousands of people and donations and support started pouring in.
Find out more about Taylor Little and her Temple Foundation in the full article on blacdetroit.com and support her cause on Facebook.
