Invisiblepeople is essentially a documentary website where Hovarth travels the country documenting the homeless people that he meets in order to get their story and have others hear it.
Previously a TV production manager in LA, Hovarth discussed how the life of drugs and alcohol eventually drove him to the streets. Sick of that life, he worked to get himself off the streets and back into a 3 bedroom home. But he never forgot the life he had once led. He took it upon himself to get the message out to the world that homelessness is a serious problem and what the government is doing right now just simply isn't enough.
He started another website, We Are Visible, in which he details how to set up a gmail account, a twitter, a facebook and how to blog so that they can get their stories out and their voices heard.
The most amazing thing about this is the fact that one of the twitter accounts is currently run by a homeless woman. In this age of technology, it is still possible for homeless people to be connected on the internet, even if they don't have the money to feed themselves or live in a house or shelter of some sort. This is what Hovarth is banking off of. YouTube gave him their home page on August 22, and he got millions of views.
This is the type of indy media activism that needs to grow stronger. It is in this way that he is affecting change, one person at a time.
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