Push Open Doors will be making an important announcement this Summer, and we hope that it helps put smiles on the faces and in the hearts of our generous supporters our communities and most of all, the Homeless.
Please check back here soon!
Jun 162010
Dec 022009
The Homeless face more issues than the rest of us.
Some obvious problems are:
- Bacterial contamination of found food
- Malnutrition
- Contagious disease
And then there are the “Ordinary Catastrophes” like air pollution, heat waves, hurricanes and floods that are absolute killers.
Caroline Cormier has written an excellent article for Esurio: Journal of Hunger and Poverty about Toronto Homelessness which was recently published. Here is an excerpt; please click Cormier Article above, for the full read.
With an inextricable link existing between the growing homeless population and the severe shortage of affordable housing, the City of Toronto is facing an unprecedented challenge. While there is no viable method of measuring Toronto’s homeless population, in the last year nearly 30,000 different people were reported as users of Toronto’s shelter system.
Nov 062009
Today, the Labor Department released the latest unemployment numbers
15,700,000 unemployed of which, 190,000 are new additional jobs in the last month
9,300,000 people working part time who would rather be working full time
808,000 Discouraged Workers – people who have given up looking for jobs
If added together, the horrendous total of people unemployed, underemployed, and no longer even bothering to try to be employed is 25,808,000
As we know, the most serious cause of homelessness is unemployment. Before the current recession, 60% of the homeless population worked and yet was still homeless.
Because of the recession is largely a foreclosure driven catastrophe, it is now worse than ever.
This is a slippery slope under the best of circumstances, which clearly, these are not.
We have a list of honest charitable organizations who are providing help for these brothers and sisters of ours.
Please consider supporting them as generously as you are able. It is good for the homeless, good for your community, good for the country, and it will make you feel good, too.
If you click on our Program Funding (You CAN Help!) over on the sidebar, every dollar will go to the programs that help.
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