Homeless Ads Peer Out of Portuguese Trash Bins

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For client Vitae, the largest homeless shelter in the EU, McCann Portugal runs a rather unsettling holiday campaign in which people find a hollow-eyed homeless man in their trash bins with the appeal, “Help. So that no one have to come here for food.”

Coming from a country in which passing change to the homeless is discouraged, we’re hard-pressed to work out the call-to-action here. Do you give them a potted plant? Drive them to Vitae? Bake them a pie?

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