Operation Greensboro Cares, a fundraising partnership coordinated by the United Way, the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, the News & Record and other media partners, is raising money for emergency shelter (including winter shelter through the WE! program), emergency food assistance through food pantries, and emergency financial assistance with power … > read more
I got an email this morning from the Rev. Mike Aiken, director of Greensboro Urban Ministries: I am very concerned about having enough emergency shelter for this winter for our homeless friends. Weaver House has been at capacity all summer. Pathways has 44 families on the waiting list. The Guilford … > read more
On Thursday afternoon, I went by to see friends on the block, at Lee and Eugene, and to let them know about dinner at the HIVE. One of my friends asked for help for his friend, who had just gotten out of the hospital. He’d had major surgery, and then … > read more
Quotes from “10 Plus with Mike Pugh,” in the News & Record: In response to questions about drugs and violence in neighborhoods, Pugh says: “There was one place. I had neighbors call me about it and tell me it had become a crack house, and there was prostitution there, too… … > read more
$53.11 will buy one pair of pants, two dresses, eight tops and a rockin’ pair of boots at Goodwill. And that’s more than enough to make me smile. Wear clothes with history. Pay less. Do more. » Goodwill » Salvation Army
The cold weather shelter programs at both homeless shelters ended yesterday, and Greensboro Urban Ministry Executive Director Mike Aiken and Salvation Army Major Paul Egan say they won’t reopen before next winter unless the weather becomes life-threatening. Salvation Army was providing emergency shelter for about 40-50 people, and Greensboro Urban … > read more
I was packing a box of donated food the other day, to give to a homeless couple who are currently staying in a hotel, and I couldn’t find a lot of the kinds of things they needed. And I realized that people who donate food are probably just thinking “canned” … > read more
From Yahoo News, emailed to me by an about-to-not-be-homeless-anymore (yay!) friend: “A judge on Thursday ordered a Salvation Army worker who stole a holiday kettle containing about $250 to spend the night homeless…” Oh, smack. Go, judge.
With forecast temps in the 20′s tonight and the teens tomorrow night, unsheltered homeless folks could die sleeping outside: In the United States, hypothermia is primarily an urban phenomenon associated with alcoholism, drug addiction, mental illness, and cold-water immersion accidents. The victims are often homeless male alcoholics. (source) Deb (from … > read more
My youngest child gets half-excited about the prospect of winter weather. No school, of course. And if there’s snow, going outside and throwing snowballs at the windows of the lame adults in the family (like me) who refuse to come outside. But I say “half-excited,” because the other half of … > read more