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| wolfgoddess | Dec 13 2005, 11:16 PM Post #16 |
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It went well tonight. We helped in the kitchen. The Rotery club, whom we helped bought the chicken for their supper to night. ( $700.00 worth ) We helped prepare the food. When my co-worker and I went to cross the street, a very polite homless person stood in the middle of the road to stop traffic so we could cross the road. As we passed him and thanked him, he bowed and smiled at us. We were very touched, but chucked...there was no traffic on the road. It broke my heart to see people lined up outside in the cold waiting to get in and eat. Once in they get to sleep there, get breakfast and a baged lunch. We are going to do this again. It felt so good to help. When we sat with them for a break, one man offered to get me a hot chocolate. I know it was my hair net |
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| karmasasha | Dec 14 2005, 05:45 AM Post #17 |
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Andrea in Minnesota, USA
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It is people like you Karen who give those people a tiny (to them big) bright spot in their day. The cold is a bitter enemy of the homeless. They sleep under the bridges here in Mpls/St Paul, Minnesota when the shelters are full. Breaks my heart. We are such a rich country and send so much money to other countries but do not provide adequately for our own. When I have gone south in the winter to the Corpus Christi area the homeless are all over the area close to the Naval base. They live in cardboard boxes covered with plastic in a huge empty field behind the HEB grocery store and the Wal-Mart. They walk around in the parking lot during the day but are very polite and don't beg or bother. I have never been afraid of them. I heard many are borderline mentally handicapped and the group homes they used to live in further north up by Waco closed because the funding was stopped. |
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| Heather | Dec 14 2005, 08:45 AM Post #18 |
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Hard enough to be homeless in the South. In Minnesota, or any other place in the North, I can barely imagine what it might be like. That is a nice thing to do, Karen.
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