Sentences with phrase «homeless street child»

As part of the «Red Nose Day» primetime special benefitting anti-poverty programs, comedian Jack Black visited Uganda, where he met a homeless street child named Felix.

Reflecting upon the poverty in London leading up to 1943, especially the treatment of poor homeless street children, the film's other themes includes celebrating with food, festivities, dance and drinks, opening ones heart to embrace those less fortunate and the spirit of giving.

Not exact matches

Long - term housing for homeless women and their children is also a critical need, one often ignored by churches» outreach missions because the homeless men on the streets of downtown areas are more visible.

Unlike the skid - row «derelicts» who seemed to be the typical homeless in the «60s, the street people today embrace the whole gamut of humanity: the «new poor,» the mentally disabled, evicted families, elderly single people, hoboes, alcoholics, drug addicts, abused spouses, abused young people and cast - off children.

He would be out on the street, walking with the homeless, helping the drug addicts and drunks, feeding the hungry, helping the children and elderly...

«We minister to street children in Nairobi and in Kiev, Ukraine; the homeless in Miami, Florida; Iranian immigrants in Southern California and Arab - Americans in Dearborn, Michigan,» Gary Baldridge said in an interview.

Born on the streets of Los Angeles to a homeless mother, and eventually taken under Child Protective Services and foster care, Moritz was adopted by age four.

Sometimes we think of homeless students as kids that are living in the street or in a shelter, but the definition of «homeless» is any child or family that is displaced.

When Brazilian police were shooting homeless children on the streets of Rio de Janeiro back in the 1990s, it wasn't wrong because they should have been injecting them with an overdose of barbiturates, instead.

We see napping children, embracing couples in bed, homeless men on the street, passed - out teenagers on the beach, and even an abandoned, sleeping dog.

His subjects have included street eccentrics, homeless children, street performers, provincial drug traffickers, coal miners, Buddhist monks, prison inmates, Taoist priests, waxwork figures in historical museums, and the dead and dying.

In addition, race and their status as immigrants or refugees may make them vulnerable to discriminatory behavior by those in control of economic and social benefits including employment, education, housing, health care and legal benefits: Stephen Gaetz, Street Justice: Homeless Youth and Access to Justice (Toronto: Justice for Children and Youth, 2002) at 43 - 46.

From the psychiatrist treating children in downstate Illinois, to the dental hygienist caring for a homeless person in Kane County; and from the therapist helping a youth in crisis on the streets of Chicago, to the doctor delivering a baby in Kankakee.

The number of homeless children in the country has increased 33 percent since 2007, and one in 45 children in the country are homeless — either living on the street or in a homeless shelter or doubling up with other families, according to a new report out by the National Center on Family Homelessness.