Sentences with phrase «hundreds of homeless people»

Their efforts range from planting a flower to helping hundreds of homeless people not get evicted from an abandoned church.

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Starting in late July, floodwaters swamped large swaths of the Southeast Asian country, leaving hundreds of people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

Around the world, people are still struggling to come to terms with the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which have left more than 8,000 dead, thousands more missing and hundreds of thousand others homeless.

Some people assume that hundreds of churches and individuals hand out these sorts of things to the homeless.

Last Saturday our small group ventured to downtown San Diego to an area where several hundred homeless people live on the sidewalk, in the shadow of the ballpark.

Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines two months ago, and with hundreds of thousands of people still homeless, some aid workers fear the public...

Three hundred people in Manassas almost became homeless because of a faulty sewer system earlier this year.

Carl has created hundreds of jobs for people of color and he's funded a homeless mission for 15 years, feeding, housing and educating Buffalo's poorest families.

Paladino has a long history of making race - related comments, but Thomas noted in the video (I'm not sure that it ever actually hit the airwaves) the candidate also «created hundreds of jobs for people of color and he's funded a homeless mission for 15 years, feeding, housing and educating Buffalo's poorest families.»

Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps said «hundreds of hidden homeless people are sleeping on our streets every night».

The all - volunteer organization B Team Buffalo will lead the charge to «Send Hunger Packing» this week, with people joining together to assemble hundreds of packages of trail mix and personal care items for Hearts for the Homeless, a local mobile soup kitchen.

Elsewhere, entire villages were flattened by intense shaking, leaving thousands of people homeless and many hundreds missing.

Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast region in August 2005, resulting in more than 1,800 people dead and leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

I've done many of the things you've mentioned — gained a regular readership of people I've never met, sold thousands, and have hundreds of wonderful reviews, but I still don't think of myself as «successful» because if I had to live on the books I sell I'd be in a homeless hostel!

I WISH more people were aware of the terrible 3rd world and worse plight of dogs on our Indian Reservations — I just can't take guests to Canyon De Chelly any more, because I feel so saddened by the hundreds of homeless dogs in Chinle and Ganado, and all along the way there.

When the Category 3 storm known as Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast early on August 29, 2005, I don't think anyone could have predicted the massive flooding and damage and the hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama who became temporarily or permanently homeless.

This event is sure to put smiles on people's faces and change the lives of hundreds of homeless animals.

Hundreds of animals and the people who love them will gather to walk, raise funds for homeless pets, and enjoy a morning of dog and family friendly activities during our 7th annual Walk for the Animals.

Agriculture could fail on a continent - wide basis and hundreds of millions of people would be rendered homeless, triggering widespread conflict.

«After a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck central China last May, killing 69,000 people, injuring hundreds of thousands and leaving millions homeless, the government is planning an extensive reconstruction project that includes building more than 1.5 million temporary homes, which are expected to last two or three years.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic kidney disease were having to travel hundreds of kilometres for treatment and some were homeless because of a shortage of accommodation, National Indigenous Times reported.

Catharine Fletcher, a formerly homeless woman turned advocate, suns herself in front of one of over a hundred brilliant pink tents newly set - up as a shelter for homeless people in Seattle.

The 18th annual Realtors Care Blanket Drive collected blankets and warm clothing to help over 19,000 working poor and homeless people across the Lower Mainland in B.C. Hundreds of real estate offices acted as drop - off locations during the event.

In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.