by annaread | Nov 5, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
This week programs at Illinois State University will raise awareness of hunger and homelessness. Events include a speaker from Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, screening of the film Children Underground, a hunger banquet, and more. Read the story.
by annaread | Nov 2, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In October of each year, an event promoted by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness asks communities to take a look at how better to connect themselves to the homeless in their midst. Read about the first ever Project Homeless Connect in Humboldt County,...
by annaread | Oct 18, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese has been running a series on homelessness. This week’s article is about a young woman who has been living “shelter to shelter” and now lives at a shelter co-sponsored by the St Vincent de Paul Society and...
by annaread | Oct 17, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Australia’s federal government is contributing $2.5 million (Aus) to redevelop facilities at St Mary’s House of Welcome in Melbourne. Established by the Daughters of Charity in 1958, St Mary’s serves the disadvantaged and vulnerable of...
by annaread | Oct 14, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In Denver, Colorado USA the mayor challenged every church, synagogue, and mosque to adopt one of Denver’s 600 homeless families. A story in today’s Los Angeles Times looks at what changed in the material lives of one family what changed in the interior...
