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Newsgroups: alt.culture.hawaii
From: "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj...@hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 06:52:36 -1000
Local: Sat, May 3 2008 12:52 pm
Subject: Re: Homeless Connect Program
"John W. Bienko" <as...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message > Hawaiians may be interested.. Let me suggest that there is a difference between "showing" them a better > Here in Calgary Canada a Homeless Connect Program was > sponsored at a large shopping mall to do something > worthwhile for the homeless, now estimated at 3600 > men and women. > Volunteers provided medical services, haircutting and > grooming, free clothing, toiletry supplies, food > baskets, as well as employment opportunities. > The objective is to give these unfortunate persons an > opportunity todo something constructive to better > their role in life. > It was amazing to see the transformation. Once the > look of poverty was removed, these persons turned out > to be handsome and beautiful people. > The interest of the volunteers showed these persons > a better way of living. > And they were thankful. way of living, and acomplishing the goal, i.e. that they do something to live better, are two different things. I am not saying that is not a good thing to do, but if in the end, if they are still homeless, you did not solve the problem. In the end, what is important is that the number of homeless people decreases and that we are able to reduce the number of people who are homeless. To begin with, it seem to me the "solution" or partial "solution" requires that we understand fully why they are homeless in the first place. "If" a person is homeless because they have a substance abuse problem, making them feel better, does not solve the reason they are homeless. We have to figure out if we can successfully get them to not be dependent on that substance. "If" a person is homeless because they don't have a job, or they lost the job they did have, or they cannot get a job that pays them enough money to keep a roof over their head, the "solution" to the problem is different than someone who has a substance abuse problem. And if you do not address and solve how to get them a good paying job, you have not solved the basic reason they became homeless. And the chances are that even if you succeed to get them to afford to put a roof over their head, they could become homeless again, because you did not solve the basic reason they were and will become homeless. "If" a woman with children are homeless, you shuld ask yourself, why did she become homeless? If she had children, that means some man contributed to that child being born. If the wonan is homeless, is that man who fathered that child, or fathers who fathered those children, also homeless. And if the father of the children are not homeless, and the woman and child are homeless, why is that? I would think you also have to know what level of education these homeless adults have achieved. I am willing to bet you will find a direct correlation between the level of education they have achieved and the number of people who are homeless. And then the quesiton becomes, how do you convince them to get more of an education. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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