Global Homeless Day 5-5-2014

Since so many in the Vincentian Family are working to address the immediate effects and the long term solcutions to homelessness this new even should be of interest.

Would you like to draw attention to the problems homeless and poor are suffering in your area and give homeless people a voice?

Would you like to help ?  What can Church’s, Schools, Youth groups, Businesses and others do ?

The world economy continues to weaken and global poverty continues to grow at an alarming rate.  Increasingly hunger and famine’s dark shadow continues its march over cities, countries, and regions.

• In the east end of London, UK homelessness has doubled in the last 3 years.
• In Australia it is reported that 600,000 Australian children live in poverty, with 18,000 kids homeless.
• In the US and Canada homelessness and police brutality continues amidst poverty, while the criminalization of the homeless  continues to spread not only in Europe for the crime of sleeping in the rough but in America as well.

It is in this global dynamic of increasing  human suffering that Global Homeless Day 5/5 was conceived.

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Compassionate individuals and groups coming together making one day a global focal point giving voice and care for those homeless men, women and children who so desperately need it.

Under one banner, yet never loosing individual or group autonomy, Global Homeless Day can provide new food, volunteer and resource  awareness needs in communities for caregivers, shelters and advocates to better serve the increasing resource needs of the expanding homeless populations.

 

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Tags: Advocacy, Homelessness