by Beth | Feb 27, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Homeless Miss Colorado: ‘Anyone can fall victim to this’ Despite having ‘all my belongings in a trash bag,’ she hopes to win Miss USA crown.When Blair Griffith walks into a room, people notice. she’s beautiful, smart. graduated with honors and, yes, a beauty...
by Beth | Feb 26, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Understanding what it is like to be poor takes first hand knowledge. You have to experience it. If you’ve never been poor, you have no idea how hard it really is. Poverty is greatly misunderstood. It is a cycle that sucks people in and doesn’t want to let them go. For...
by Beth | Feb 26, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Housing isn’t the solution to homelessness. You also need community,” said Mark Horvath. Founder of InvisiblePeople.tv — a site of raw, uncut videos of homeless people telling their own stories—Horvath was once homeless himself in 1995. So he’s no small...
by Beth | Feb 16, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
What is happening on the street sometimes appears to be the equivalent of a blood sport. One with no rules and that makes no sense. When assessing each individual’s struggle to avoid facing the hole they are in, it’s clear that the denial factor can...
by Beth | Feb 2, 2011 | Vincentian Family
The Passage, the centre for the homeless so well described in “Seeds of Hope” as an example of Vincentian systemic change, held an exhibition of photographs on January 18 to capture the life of the centre over the last 30 years as part of its anniversary...
