Woman Creates Facebook Page for Homeless Poet, Reunites Him With Family After Decades Apart (VIDEO)
Day after day, Raiumundo Arruda Sobrinho sat on 'The Island', a romanticized name for the grassy traffic median in São Paulo, Brazil where he lived for 35 years. Many were curious about the man – they knew he wrote things - but they couldn't summon the courage to approach him. But a young woman named Shalla Monteiro could, and did.
Monteiro read Sobrinho's poetry, and it impressed her so much that she created a Facebook Page to share his writing with the world. As people got to know him through Facebook, they began to approach him on The Island as well.
Facebook was changing Sobrinho's life, and then one visitor to his Page turned everything upside down: his brother, who hadn't seen him for 57 years.
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Reunited, Sobrinho accepted his brother's invitation to live with his family. Sobrinho's book of poetry is currently being published.
There are so many lessons to learn from this story. There's Sobrinho persisting to write day after day and his will to survive. Monteiro could have passed him by like the other hundreds everyday, but she stopped and read and listened. She went the extra mile by creating the Facebook Page. And Sobrinho's brother reached out and brought his long-lost brother home.
