Melissa and I met a new friend at the Freeman Mill tent city on Friday while we were doing StreetWatch. Jeffrey told us that he’s not homeless, “just a vagabond”, and he played and sang music for us and let me film him. The first thing he played was, I … > read more
I just got a call from a homeless woman who has no place to go. Last night, she slept in a parking garage downtown. She had no sleeping bag. No blankets. She was cold. Temperatures were in the 50′s last night. Concrete makes a cold, hard bed. The women’s winter … > read more
Yesterday morning, I sat alone in my car before church, thinking about all the homeless people who were back on the street now that the winter shelters had closed a few hours earlier. Eventually, I looked out my car window and saw a man sitting alone on the stage in … > read more
I got a call from a homeless man who needs a tent. A friend who works at the day center suggested he call me. We talked on the phone a couple of times, I gave him walking directions to a place he’d heard that he could safely and legally camp, … > read more
Josh Jones has lived through poverty, dysfunction, disability and homelessness. He’s one of the most resilient, determined, positive, helpful and loving people that I know. We met when I was a case manager in a church-based assistance ministry and he was my client. But he very quickly became my friend … > read more
December 21st is National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day. Locally, AmeriCorps Partnership to End Homelessness sponsored the Greensboro Homeless Memorial Walk from the Interactive Resource Center on East Washington Street to Grace Community Church on West Lee Street, where a Memorial Service was held at 6:15pm. On the stage were a … > read more
Guest post, by Melissa Gayle: you don’t know my story, only bits and pieces, i treat homelessness like its my main thesis. I’ve walked in those shoes, I’ve slept on those streets, i used to be chronically homeless,and ppl looked at me like i was a disease.that was me, you … > read more
From my friend Betsy’s post, “We Will Reap”: “…My 11 year old daughter Jessica hasn’t been 11 for very long. We had her birthday party here a couple weeks ago, and she has been wanting an iPod Touch for quite a while. It’s ‘the thing’ you know? They’re very useful … > read more
Update, 11/20/2011: Brad has a job! Meet Brad. He lives in a homeless camp, but wants to move inside before winter. To do that, he needs a job. He has lots of skills and experience, which he talks about in this video. Please watch and share.
At Thomasville’s Everybody’s Day (street fair), I looked at some fretwork pieces done by a local craftsman. I mentioned to him that my friend, Don Ames is a homeless vet who does fretwork at a camp in the woods in Greensboro, using a scroll saw powered by a solar panel. … > read more