Shelter KC’s executive director spends 24 hours sitting on a bench to shed light on homelessness

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For 24 hours, Shelter KCs executive director Eric Burger stayed up and sat outside the shelter. His why is to share the stories of those who either are currently or have been homeless from the challenges to the victories.

The movement is called Conversations on a Bench and it is a nationwide event. For 24 hours, 70 missions across the country participated alongside Shelter KC.

Burger had interviews lined up from 2:00 PM Thursday until 2:00 PM Friday to livestream the conversations he was having.

Weve just been talking to people about homelessness and so some of that is folks that are staying with us. Some of those are folks who have just walked up and some of those other providers and then also talking to other CEOs from cities all over the country. So