Sentences with phrase «who live on the streets»

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.

From her window in the convent she saw the slums of Motijhil and occasionally had to walk amongst the poor who lived on the streets of Calcutta.

Trash pickup also tends to engage more of the people who live on the street in conversations.

Then he asks God to be with people who live on the streets, to give them a place to sleep and food to eat.

That someone used to be one of my friends, a middle - aged man who would get all of our leftovers and hand - me - down blankets and reading lights and anything else we (err, I) thought might be useful to someone who lives on the streets.

And just as you get outside you start thinking out loud about how shitty it is that you're passing out second - rate pastries to people who live on the streets because Surely they deserve better than a batch of scones that could easily be passed off as triangular muffins.

You might end up with a daughter who loves to have you along or as I do a son who lives on my street.

«Being able to support this organization and keep it running has a real financial benefit to the city, not to mention quality of life benefits for the people who live on a street next to a vacant building,» Wright said.

They came from the several acres growing 100 yards from my house, conventionally sprayed with toxic pesticides that will last literally generations in the groundwater and in my body and everyone else's who live on this street.

Mighty Ground (DVD + digital download) Details: 2017, Random Media Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A documentary that follows a gifted, homeless singer who lives on the streets of Los Angeles» Skid Row.

Catnip Nation, an hour long documentary, will explore the dichotomy between our beloved pet cats and the cats who live on the streets.

When her owner, a male who lives on the streets in Antioch, CA picked her up he noticed she definitely was sick.

This sounds like a really interesting read — it must be so very different caring for cats who live on the streets.

I've disliked them since my wife bought one to use on her Wheaton Terrier, an adopted dog who lived on the street for the first couple years of his life and acquired some rather intractable behavioral issues, including pulling during walks.

Pets of the Homeless received a call from a homeless man who lives on the streets in Redding, CA.

«But the unique attribute is that the shelter will be staffed exclusively by homeless people who live on the streets with their pets and thus have a demonstrated affinity for caring for animals in need.

Using a large - format camera, Serrano captured more than 85 men and women who live on the streets of New York for the series, «Residents of New York,» Commissioned by More Art, the images are displayed on phone booths and in subway stations across the city through June 15.

These little homes are fast becoming a collaborative project between different groups who want to help shelter people who live on the streets.

The stunning illustrations of the work in progress on pieces of scrap wood are by artist Miguel Fuster, who lived on the street for 15 years.

Blogger David Eby, a lawyer with Pivot, hopes the blanket campaign will raise awareness about the homeless situation in Vancouver, where there are only 700 shelter spaces available for the estimated 2,300 people who live on the streets.

Some of the most vulnerable residents in Allen are those who live on the street, not just because they have no permanent residence, but because mental illness and addiction are highly common among the homeless population.

Scott Brown, Fifth Avenue's president, and the entire Fifth Avenue team spent the evening serving hot food and passing out clothing and blankets to those who live on the streets.

Not exact matches

One day, a guy who looked like he lived on the street came into the dealership carrying a big shopping bag.

They tell all the dirt on a new employee, who you didn't know lived up the street from grandma.

But the folks who sell drugs on the streets shouldn't be getting life sentences without parole for drug offenses, either.

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.

The true story of Chris Gardner, a homeless San Francisco salesman who is forced to live on the streets with his young son.

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.

Based on that rate of prevalence, the researchers estimated, in a 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study, that some 67,000 Manhattanites who lived south of 110th Street (within 11 miles of the Towers) had some indication of PTSD during that time.

Gonzalez said it was clear in the video that Garcia Zarate — who has spent much of his adult life behind bars, was living on the street before the shooting, and has a second - grade education — did not fully understand what the officers were asking him through an officer's Spanish translation.

«At this point,» says Jared Dillian, a former Wall Street trader and contrarian analyst who predicted Canada's looming economic crash early on, «you'd have to live under a rock to not realize what's going on.

Helen Pasciolla, who is retired, lives on an elegant street in the Pine Tree Estates development in Parkland, three houses down and across from where the Cruz family resided until about a year ago.

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.

Michael Nieto, who lives near East Second and Pedernales streets, says that while getting groceries isn't a problem, he's still forced to rely on Capital Metro buses and taxis to take him elsewhere for other shopping and errands.

However, in my personal life, I'm more than willing to tell my friends, family, my old pastor (who is intelligent, well spoken, and respectful, which makes for engaging conversations) or the random evangelists handing out pamphlets on the street what I think.

The novel's protagonist, Jeffrey Lockhart, is a thirty - four - year - old New Yorker who has been drifting through life, from one vague and interchangeable job («cross-stream pricing consultant,» «implementation analyst,» «systems administrator at a networking site») and relationship («She lived on First Avenue and First Street and I didn't know whether her name was spelled Gale or Gail») to the next.

In 1995, before leaving on a ministry trip to Australia, I read a true story about a seminary student who struck up a conversation with a teenager who had been living on the streets of Melbourne.

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.

We are neighbors who live, work and play on the same streets with a common desire to see deep, charitable relationships, sustainable economy, mutual understanding and a celebration of diversity.

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.

HARD TO QUIT Most girls who are on the streets will either get off and back into a normal life in the first three months or it will be another ten years before they can escape this lifestyle.

It was there in Manhattan he was unhappily schooled, first at the Male School on Crosby Street and then at the Columbia Grammar School, and there he returned thirty years later to spend the bitter, dark end of his life — a misemployed customs inspector turned drunkard, possibly a wife - beater, and the forgotten man of American letters: a minor author who'd written a scandalous sea - tale or two early in life and hadn't had the sense to quit writing.

Founded in 1997 by Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest on Vanderbilt's campus, Magdalene is a residential program for women who have survived lives of prostitution, trafficking, addiction and life on the streets.

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?

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.

Moving outward from the church a little further, there are the immediate neighbors of the church — those who live next door and on the same street or block.

All I am asking is to acknowledge him as a C adet on the 911 memorials and name the street he lived on after him as they have named the streets after the other NYPD members who died.

Adamson's friendship with Alan Dainton, portrayed alongside his photographs, raises the question of what we see when we walk past those who find themselves living on the streets.

We know some who have been living on the street for over twenty years.