Sentences with phrase «many people living on the streets»

It's not about how big the numbers are once you're talking about real people living on the streets.
But most of them took one look at the country's most notorious neighbourhood — gorgeous but crumbling buildings, a crack - cocaine epidemic on top of a heroin problem, mentally ill people living on the streets — and shook their heads.
In São Paulo I visited a magnificent health clinic for low - income people that was sponsored by a Pentecostal church, and I visited another congregation that sends out 12 buses every night filled with members who offer soup and blankets to people living on the streets.
He continued that, «There are people living on the streets on New York who are homeless and Trump Couldn't see that...» he wondered.
CBS 2 New York story on Borough President Adams honoring Bay Ridge brothers Nick and Mike Fiorito for their work handing out purple blankets to homeless people living on the streets.
He recently announced plans to overhaul the Department of Homeless Services and increase the city's outreach to people living on the street.
Advocates for homeless people filed a complaint with New York City's Civil Rights Commission accusing the Police Department of targeting people living on the street, a practice they say violates a two - year - old law that prohibits «bias - based profiling.»
There has been a recent explosion in the number of homeless people living on our streets.
When asked about the visible expansion in the number of people living on the street, Mr. de Blasio would tout DHS's success in getting people out of shelters.
«Literally thousands of people living on the streets in tents, in full - time encampments in their downtown area.»
In his national - tilted themes, Cuomo talked of an American economic transformation that has made a «handful rich,» of record homeless people living on the streets and a judicial system too often tipped «by resources or race.»
3) I was saddened to see a number of people living on the streets or inside the Metro stations.
Great Speeches From a Dying World is an unsettling documentary portrait gallery of nine homeless people living on the streets of Seattle.
These aren't people living on the streets, and yet they're not so far from it, and they're always at risk of landing there.
Our original rationale for pairing homeless teenagers with shelter animals was our founder's observation that many young people living on the streets and under bridges had pets with them.
In development over at Last Pick Productions, iBeg is a mobile game for the iOS and Android platforms that simulates the life of a homeless person living on the streets of Vancouver.
The prototype of the Woonfiets (living bike, or Housetrike) was designed and built by Bas Sprakel, a way of solving some of the pressing problems for people living on the streets, by providing a secure place to store their belongings, while also expanding to become a safe shelter at night.
Shaw has also delivered these items directly to people living on the streets in makeshift shelters and tents.
Many of the blankets, sleeping bags and coats we collect go to shelters and ministries who distribute them directly to people living on the streets.

Not exact matches

Unless you are one of those rare people who can meet a random stranger on the street, strike up a conversation and get their life story within 30 seconds, approaching someone you have never met before can be nerve - racking.
For people living on one street in San Francisco, it seems as if there are Full House fans everywhere you look.
Near the end of his life, he declared: «If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's going to happen to the stock market.»
When he went on to say, we're putting our lives on the line, we've got to do better and people who should care about protecting police officers should be committed to getting assault weapons off the streets to start with.
«The people who create the value of production, the workers at Palantir, they need to know that they have liquidity at a fair price and this has raised a lot of questions,» Karp said at the Wall Street Journal «s D Live conference on Wednesday.
People on the streets can allow themselves to become so overwhelmed in life that it seems impossible to overcome anything.
«By altering billboards in Google Street View we gained access to locations where people could never say certain things in real life without facing consequences, far beyond both borders and censorship,» the organization stated on its Billboards Beyond Borders website.
You've got life to live, getting set up with Hope Street property management is easy; in person, on - line, or a combination of both.
Youth employees are referred by local nonprofits including Beyond Emancipation and Not for Sale, groups that support young people who have been in foster care, lived on the streets, or faced other significant hardships.
In total, 4.2 million young people (ages 13 - 25) experience a form of homelessness in a given year, from couch surfing to living on the streets.
Very few people are going to choose to live on the streets for a few years if buying a house or renting an apartment strains their budget.
Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.
The Bundestag walk - outs attest that the wider opposition to Benedict on display in the press and on the streets was just not to his particular message, but to his person as the living embodiment of his message.
What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?
There are thousands of other stories like this, from people working with those in Vietnam who are dying of HIV / AIDS to people who are simply having Christmas dinner with a friends who live on the street.
At one time he spoke about the vision of Maujer Street» a vision of a life of genuine community between people in the midst of a great city; more recently he has spoken of the Kingdom of God, the hope for a future where God's rule would more fully permeate the lives and institutions of men on this earth.
The young people who worked for him at the magazine lived with him in a townhouse on East 19th Street, where we had daily evening prayer and Saturday dinner together.
90 % of the people there are recovered addicts, many of them rescued from a life on the streets.
So if I were a rich man and left all of my possessions behind and lived on the street for a year as a homeless person, is the hypocrisy that I could go back to being rich or that I tried to see how someone else lives?
Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.
William H. Whyte, a leader in the study of modern urban street life, spent decades studying the patterns of diverse people on the move.
If the former, I would suggest you and one or two others spend time on the street getting to know the people living there.
If you live in a small town and know that the people on the street corners are really homeless, your plan should work.
Afterwards, as we were sitting on the couch, a little depressed from all the people who die, the women who get treated like trash, and the overall view in the movie that life is cheap, my wife said, «Of all the traditional Christmas movies, «Miracle on 34th Street,» «White Christmas,» or «A Christmas Story «why do you watch this movie?
When Wendy and I were living in Chicago, there were numerous homeless people on the streets asking for money.
Trash pickup also tends to engage more of the people who live on the street in conversations.
We want to help people, not make their lives worse by enabling them to remain in poverty or on the street.
A man makes a mistake in life, it was in the right street but it was in the wrong house, for opposite, on the second floor, dwells the ideal — this people think a theme for poetry.
What if they were a little smaller and didn't start on time and only had three people in the band, but on nights, weekends and weekdays the congregants scoured the streets of their cities and served people who haven't seen kindness or felt grace in their entire lives?
Any action we make in our day to day lives can influence others to follow along, whether our friends or family, people at work, even random people on the streets... how do you think riots get started?
Then he asks God to be with people who live on the streets, to give them a place to sleep and food to eat.
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