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I can’t do this. I don’t know how to help anybody. People drowning in the bottle. People trapped in addiction. People tortured by mental illness. People being beaten. People getting raped. People going to jail and prison. People haunted by childhood trauma and abuse. People overwhelmed by lifetimes of tragedies, one after the after. People with nowhere to live, nowhere to go, nowhere to be. All around me — a human tidal wave of pain, pain, pain.
image credit: H. Scott Hoffmann (News & Record)
Homeless to City Council: Don’t reduce our funding
source: News-Record.com
GREENSBORO — As the city considers budget reductions for next year, a group of homeless people and advocates are asking that the budget not be balanced at the expense of services for the poor. About half a dozen people brought their pleas directly to the City Council on Tuesday night.
» full story at News-Record.com
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Homeless Concerned About Cuts March On City Hall
Source: www.wxii12.com
GREENSBORO — Several of Greensboro homeless residents are calling on the City Council to continuing funding agencies that provide assistance. Tuesday, April 21, 2009…
» full story, with video, on WXII
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Click on titles or images below for homeless advocate Mark Horvath’s first two Whrrl stories (photos and text) from the Sacramento tent cities:
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The Soloist, a film starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr., telling the story of real-life cello prodigy who leaves Juilliard after developing schizophrenia and ends up homeless on Skid Row in L.A., opens on Friday, April 24th.
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From News-Record.com, 04/20/2009:
image credit: Joseph Rodriguez, News & Record
No injuries were reported when a fire broke out in a trailer today.
The fire was reported about 12:20 p.m. Monday in an empty mobile home at 1727 W. Lee St., about a block east of the Greensboro Coliseum.
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Press release, via Liz Seymour:
HOMELESS AND POOR PEOPLE TO ASK CITY COUNCIL NOT TO CUT FUNDING TO HOMELESS SERVICES
Tuesday, April 21 walk from “The Block” to City Council meeting will highlight need for continued services
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“Habitat On Wheels (HOW) is an ongoing effort by Mobile Loaves & Fishes to effectively confront homelessness in Austin (Texas). HOW gets people off the street by providing them with recreational vehicle housing and the support they need to improve their circumstance. This solution not only provides participants with housing, but also with a supportive community that is dedicated to helping them effect positive change in their lives.”
» More here: www.mlfnow.org/how.
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My blog friend over at LNB reminded me via email what all of us Jesus followers are aiming for — these words: “Well done, good and faithful servant!” (Matthew 25:23) I want to hear that from the LORD! I want to be well done! But oh wow, how often I fall short…
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This is the song on my lips and in my heart these days — a song of hope and healing, a song that restores and refills me when the flood of pain around me threatens to overwhelm my soul:
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Photo credit: Mark Horvath
“Hardly Normal at Prado Day Center,” a story in photos and words.
“The Prado Day Center is the only day center serving the homeless population in the region. Every day, between 90 to 120 people seek refuge and assistance at the Center. Over 30 percent of the Center’s participants are now women and children…”
» See the photo story here
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