There was so much physical labor in the work we did over the last several years. Endless trash that was the most disgusting experiences of my life. So much trash. Moving homeless people’s belongings from here to there to another there. The moving of stuff was overwhelming. And all of the incredibly hard work endless […]
A woman who had been beaten for the last 30 years and was escaping the sex trafficking business came to us yesterday for a place to sleep. The first thing I asked her was if she went to the battered women’s shelter. She said they required that she call in to get in. She doesn’t […]
I’m not sure which is worse: cruelty by decision or cruelty by ignorance. This story falls into the category of cruelty by ignorance. The City of Akron is currently on a rampage against their homeless citizens. They are hunting homeless people. Since the beginning of the year I have personally seen them shut down at […]
Many of the difficulties of this work just roll off my back. They don’t make me angry. I don’t think I even had a minute where I was angry towards the woman who burned down our porta potty and caused $5000 worth of damage. A tenant called the cops on me yesterday for going into […]
A person would think that if they spent a few years working with the homeless that they’d be fairly well versed in the level of poverty in their town. But I’m here to tell you: every day I uncover a new layer of extreme, severe poverty that continues to shock me. Yesterday a woman told […]
Opiates kill people in many different ways. From not knowing what kind of drug you are taking, to using dirty methods of delivery. Kids are dying because marijuana and party drugs are being secretly laced with carfentanil… a tranquilizer used on elephants. We live in an insane world. But fortunately there are groups like the […]
Click here to learn more and register for the event. The Homeless Charity community is coming together June 13th to collectively create an outdoor space just to serve the homeless. We always talk about where the homeless will safely sleep. But have you ever wondered… what do the homeless do all day? Shelters close, churches […]
Yesterday at an unstructured homeless camp this was the scene: The city brought approximately 8 people to clean up a homeless camp. These were not paid city workers. These were people required to do community service work. They used free labor to do this work. I watched as the 2 or 3 paid city workers […]
Martin Luther King Jr,’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.] starts this way: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms […]
I came to work yesterday to find our porta potty completely burned to the ground. Fire is a powerful force. If you had not known there was a porta potty sitting there the day before you would have just thought that you were looking at a small fire. Except the windows around the porta potty […]