Winter shelter: “I take the risk…”

At a recent meeting focused on expanding emergency winter shelter in response to the growing number of homeless people on the street, Greensboro Urban Ministry’s shelter director, Manny Matos, addressed concerns such as shelter overcrowding:

” …when we’re dealing with human life, I take the risk.  We have to understand, there’ll be some things we have no control over… I’d rather let these folks in than let them die outside because some intelligent folks couldn’t come up with a plan… “

We need a lot more Mannys working with the homeless in this town. He is an advocate and a blessing.