How To Help the Homeless
Here is a writing I gleaned from a website many moons ago on November 30, 2011 Volunteer at a shelter or a soup kitchen. If you don’t know where to find one, ask and I will find one for you. If the times don’t work for you, make some sandwiches, put them in a back pack and go downtown and hand them out. It will feel awkward at first, you will get over it quickly. Give money to these organizations. Do some research, find out how they are helping to get people OUT of homelessness—they are the best in my mind. Hand out bottled water in the summer. Again, go downtown, you will know who is homeless. More of the homeless die in the heat of the summer than do on the streets in the winter. Hire someone homeless or help them find a job. Having proper identification and transportation, etc… make it hard enough. Give someone a chance, gaps in employment is to be expected. Become an advocate for a homeless person. There are plac...