This year the Ohio State Fair will have the home of a poor fam­ily as one of it’s dis­plays. The exhibit is spon­sored by Habi­tat for Human­ity and Thrivent Finan­cial. After tour­ing the home, vis­i­tors are encour­aged to give dona­tions to the two groups.

From this Asso­ci­ated Press arti­cle that we found at the Newark Advo­cate we read more details of the dis­play. The home sounds a like your hum­ble blogger’s house in too many ways.

An exhibit at the Ohio State Fair depicts the home of a fam­ily in poverty, with light pro­vided by a bare bulb hung from the ceil­ing and plas­ter off the walls.

Its spon­sors said they hope peo­ple will be inspired into action by the dis­play, housed inside a tractor-trailer near one of the fair entrances.

The grim scene also shows bro­ken win­dows par­tially cov­ered by tat­tered cur­tains, a 1970s space heater being used for warmth, and an elec­tri­cal out­let packed with plugs.

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