The Interactive Resource Center, Greensboro’s day center for the homeless, could use donations of the following items:
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Went to shelter to take coat to homeless man we met at day center. Gave out all coats we had, & food. More coats needed. Shelter crowded.
Signif snow accumulation expected. Shelters usually close during day. Homeless worried where will they go? Day center not open on weekend.
No social networking on new IRC homeless day center site? Do more using Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, etc. http://bit.ly/6IDwG8
Greensboro’s homeless day center launches web site: Interactive Resource Center http://bit.ly/6IDwG8
Pro photogs take portraits of local homeless folks at IRC day center. Part of global “Help-Portrait.” http://bit.ly/5dEBGb
I wasn’t surprised to learn that there’s a homeless refugee in Greensboro. But I am surprised to hear that he’s the first.
image credit: Nelson Kepley, News-Record.com
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5-6 homeless living outside in wheelchairs (that we know, maybe more). Need showers. Day center upstairs, no elevator. Any suggestions?
I wrote about the guys on the block (and more) for the News & Record: “When there’s nowhere to go,” by Michele Forrest; published Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. It’s online here, and reposted below:
On the block. Image credit: Michele Forrest / ChosenFast.com
My ministry partner, Audrie Keen, and I provide a street outreach to the homeless in Greensboro, and we’ve made a lot of friends along the way. We eat together, go to church together and have cookouts. Sometimes our homeless friends stay with us. We visit formerly homeless friends in their homes.
When we say “homeless friends,” we really mean friends.
Two Friday mornings ago, we visited “The Block” at Lee and South Eugene streets. It had been 11 days since my last visit, when we’d talked about the artistic bench installed, then removed, from along the new stretch of the Downtown Greenway in that area. Neighbors said the bench attracted drug addicts and prostitutes.
The guys on The Block dismissed that notion. One said: “The problem is not as serious as they say it is on the news. And the bench has nothing to do with it.”
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Good editorial in today’s News & Record: “Clearing out The Block”:
Greensboro police last week stepped up loitering enforcement and effectively cleared the place known as “The Block.” Just like that.
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"The block" at Lee & Eugene Streest; image credit: News & Record
A friend contacted me yesterday to tell me that police were no longer allowing people to stand on “the block,” a well-known and long-time gathering spot at the corner of Lee and Eugene Streets near the homeless shelter, soup kitchen and health clinic. Traditionally, most of the people who stood out on the corner were homeless, and many of them spent their time on the block drinking. Today, I received reports from a number of sources with information about what may have led to the clearing of the block.
Read more on Alston meets with residents; Bellamy clears block; day center gets $275K…
RT @gwitt: Commissioners vote to give $275,000 to GSO homeless day ctr
Follow-up: “A promise to promise,” the day center money, Paul Gibson said.
» Previously: Lack of funds delays day center opening
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