Sentences with phrase «other homeless people»

I hadn't seen him before and knew instantly he was different from other homeless people.

However, for other homeless people interviewed, existing anti-social tendencies had led directly to them being on the streets, as they had been evicted from the parental or marital home, rented accommodation and hostels.

Gradually, however, I realized that I had previously met and known other homeless people, but just didn't know they were homeless.

Not exact matches

Money will go to Glide, a San Francisco charity that provides food, health care and other services to people who are homeless, poor or struggling with substance abuse.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

That is what religion is about, teaching people to be generous to others, feed the sick or hurt or homeless, treating others like you want to be treated, being honest, kind, loving, and generous.

Has it ever seemed strange to you that although there can be dozens of people out in the community loving others, serving the poor, meeting needs, and helping the homeless, the «truly spiritual people» are those who come to church on Wednesday night for the prayer meeting where they pray for the poor, the homeless, and the other needs of the community?

When giving advice to people regarding their interactions with the homeless, we try to err on the side of safety for people and their families who want to help others.

Why oh why in the world would people burn the Koran when there is a shortagge of toilet paper??? Homeless shelters, hospitals and other charitable oganizations could use this book for their visitors when they need to use the bathroom.

If you have one homeless guy in your small town who sleeps on the city square, you would probably notice if several other people sat with him on Christmas day, pretending to be homeless so they can receive new blankets and sleeping bags.

Our group, though small, is amazingly diverse, including homeless men and women, university and seminary students, people whose addictions are still active and others who are in recovery, young professionals and social workers, a mix of ethnicities and even a handful of «normal» folks.

After reading a couple of your blog postings on homeless, I have attempted to be more open to loving on the homeless in a way that would best represent Jesus which is a big step for me because I would normally be the person looking the other way assuming they were drunk or drugged.

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

When I get a chance I'll write a couple of posts — One about the homeless and Jesus (some dislike churches and Christians, others are Jesus followers, but most like Jesus), and one about observations the homeless make to us about the people who show up on their turf to «minister» to them (whose attitudes range from condescension, which is very common, to love, which is very uncommon).

My wife pointed out, of course, that the «homeless» family members had hats covering their faces and other such things, so it is not really their fault for not seeing their loved ones, but still, the point of the video is as you say, we often ignore or miss the homeless people around us.

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.

So many homeless people suffer from mental illness, substance abuse, PTSD an others.

Some churches are involved in community services, especially emergency - care services: crisis counseling centers, battered women's shelters and other housing for homeless women and young people — many of whom are running away from physical and sexual abuse.

I would ask a homeless person if they want something to eat and if they say no then no i would not give to a homeless man or woman, in other words they would not need the money.

For some people that baby step might be bringing a homeless person to dinner, for others it might just be stopping to talk to a homeless person because they've never done that.

The Chicago Temple offers midweek services for downtown workers (90 percent of whom are members of other churches), and it has a ministry to the many homeless people who spend days and nights in the Loop.

The other thing that may help in your church's ministry is a group in Australia that has designed swags for homeless people that help with cold and rain.

My wife and I recently made a couple of trips to the winter homeless shelter to deliver clothing, blankets and other items to help homeless people make it through what was probably the most dangerous two nights of the year, considering the cold, rain and sleet.

As Christians, we judge gays, lesbians, the rich, the homeless, people of other religions, atheists, heretics, criminals, drunks, drug addicts, prostitutes, pimps, politicians, and anybody else we can think of to point our finger at.

On Saturday, I have church in a park downtown with about 10 - 20 other believers and 150 - 200 homeless people.

This morning we picked up about a thousand items of clothing which still needs to be sorted and parceled out to the homeless, people who just got off the street, the poor, refugees and others.

They add their «Rock» or religion to everything and claim thats what helps the poor and feeds the hungry or houses the homeless, but it's really the other ingredients i.e. the kind hearted people reaching out to help that gives them the facade of helpfulness.

As a leader for an outreach ministry program for his home church, El - Shaddai Pentecostal Church of Christ, he rallies members of his local chapter of Tennessee School Nutrition Association (TSNA) and other industry associates to prepare care packages for 200 homeless people in Memphis.

This bastard deserves to be homeless the way he treats other people and their lives.

Experts warn that councils could choose to spend this on other forms of emergency accommodation, including housing for older people and homeless people.

The Guardian has highlighted the cases of numerous other people who have lost their jobs or been made homeless because they are unable to prove they are in the UK legally, despite having lived in the country for over half a century.

So, step 2 is to vote in person or by mail, by supplying one of the following -LRB-(E) credit or debit card; (G) student identification card; (H) health club identification card; (I) insurance plan identification card) and one of the following -LRB-(A) utility bill; (B) bank statement; (C) government check; (O) identification documents issued by governmental disability agencies; (P) identification documents issued by government homeless shelters and other government temporary or transitional facilities)

State agencies issued three separate Requests for Proposals to provide more than $ 650 million in capital funding and $ 30 million in service and operating funding for at least 1,200 supportive housing units for homeless people with special needs, conditions or other challenges.

The FOR - HOME study followed up 400 single homeless people who were moved from hostels and other temporary accommodation into independent housing in London, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire to determine the long - term outcomes of resettlement.

Bearing signs saying «Don't balance the budget on the backs of the poor» and shouting «Hey hey, ho ho, the funding cuts have got to go,» the roughly 150 demonstrators, largely from New York City, represented progressive activist groups pushing for rent reductions for people with HIV, homeless services, low - income housing, health care and other issues.

-- «Homeless Woman's Court Fight Inspires 2 City Council Bills,» by The New York Times» Nikita Stewart: «Angela Castillo was tired of moving, and she was tired of the way she was being treated, like so many other people who enter New York City's homeless shelterHomeless Woman's Court Fight Inspires 2 City Council Bills,» by The New York Times» Nikita Stewart: «Angela Castillo was tired of moving, and she was tired of the way she was being treated, like so many other people who enter New York City's homeless shelterhomeless shelter system.

Mental health experts will fan out to New York City's homeless shelters, into the streets and to other places to treat mentally ill people who exhibit violent behavior, as part of a $ 22 million initiative called NYC Safe that was unveiled by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

It's terrible how other courntries, and states are being taken care of; bail outs are handed out, and there's so many HOMELESS PEOPLE HERE IN THIS STATE.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 80» and 90's, Westchester County purposely move people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

The explosion, in December 2015, left one person dead and injured many people, while several other people were left homeless after the roofs of their houses were ripped off.

The number of homeless people in West Yorkshire is rising steadily and churches and many others in the county are increasingly involved in providing night shelter accommodation for the homeless,» he said in the Lords.

As homeless New Yorkers rebelled against the order and others questioned the legality of yanking people off the streets, Cuomo administration officials elaborated on the process, saying people would not be forced to leave the sidewalks.

Eighty people including George Soros, Steven Rockefeller and Abigail Disney wrote to lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying they and other top earners can afford to pay more to support schools, roads, bridges and programs to help poor and homeless New Yorkers.

Governor Cuomo today announced 169 conditional awards to agencies in 47 counties across the state, that will provide support services and operating funding for at least 1,200 units of supportive housing for homeless persons with special needs, conditions or other... Continue reading →

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 1980» and 90's, Westchester County purposely moved people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

MIDTOWN — People seeking refuge in the city's homeless shelters will have to prove they have no other place to go under a new policy announced Thursday that has advocates reeling.

They are also asking the de Blasio administration to immediately stop using the SOTA program or any other process to «illegally transfer its homeless people to Broome County.»

There's all kinds of crime that occurs in their homeless shelters and other undesirable outcomes for people in that shelter system in New York City... They don't take [the issue] serious enough.»

Patient recruitment is an enormous problem in many medical studies, and researchers often end up paying for the participation of students, poor people, drug abusers, the homeless, illegal immigrants, and others who may not adequately represent the population in terms of health or lifestyle.

Several houses were swallowed up whole, others such as the one in our photograph were wrecked, and 2,000 people were left homeless.