02 Espacio Coordinadores Comisiones de Trabajo del CTC

Problem: Whatever the reason people become homeless, we* all become penniless, cold, hot, hungry, confused, stressed, lonely and miserable. Homeless shelters are mostly breeding grounds of despair. Some people that purport to be helping the homeless are exploiting or judging them instead. Many over-churched folks think they can "earn points" or smooth out their "Karma" by reducing their stockpiles of worn and out-of-fashion clothing or donating canned goods and stale baloney sandwiches to a local miss...

Action: So much needs to be done to understand the true nature of homelessness. A subjective look at the problem can be enlightening. Empirical data can be gleaned from close honest contact with urban refugees. Building dialog is of core significance in the following plan of action. A surprising number of homeless people you'll meet are intelligent, articulate, willing to work, and creative, which is profoundly contrary to media-formed belief. Some apparently homeless people have college degrees and ...