My Book Presentation

2.  In A Gift of Hope, Author Danielle
Steel show us how she transformed the
pain of losing her beloved son into a
campaign of service that enriched her
life beyond what she could imagine.

3.  For eleven years Danielle Steel took
for streets with a small team to help
the homeless of San Francisco.
The homeless are forgotten people
who no one wants to think about or
know.
 Steel worked under cover of darkness,
distributing food, clothing, bedding,
tools and toiletries to the city´s most
vulnerable citizens. She sought
publicity for her effort and reminder
anonymous throught out. Now she has
choosen to tell her storyto bring
attention to their plight.

4.  She offers achingly acute portraits of
the people she met along the way-and
issues a heartfelt call for more
effective action to aid this vast,
deprived population. Determined to
supply the homeless with the basic
necessities to keep them alive, she
ends up giving them something far
more powerful: a voice.

5. HELPING HOMELESS
 This small book that talk about the
author Danielle Steel´s experience as
she went out and starting helping
homeless in her city, is deeply moving
and truly inspiring. It stars with how,
after loss of her much beloved son to
bipolar disorder, she felt that she
should to something, a little something
to help others, but didn´t quite know
what.

6.  She looked into the eyes of people who
were lost, suffering, sick in their body
and mind, most of whom have lost
hope.
 It was once while she was praying a
thought occurred to her «help the
homeless»
 And it was scary at first, because she
never felt very confortable with the
homeless.

7.  Nick (the son she lost) had
been kind to the homeless
 At the fact convinced her to try
it out once. One winter night
she set out with a collague
with warm jackets and
sleeping bag and socks and
gloves and went up to the
people in the street and
offered them what they had to
give.

8.  That was the first time and a deeply
moving experience for Danielle .
 The book goes about how she
gradually stars seeing more people for
needs far greater than anyone with a
roof over their heads, the way she
learns by experience the precise things
they need about and what would help
them to survive till the time they´re
either out of streets or till someone
better come along for help.

9.  Her aim is just to provide them with
some basic necesities, usually warm
clothes so that they´re warm on cold
nights.
 Her team gradually growns to about
11or 13 adults who´re committed to
the cause, going out in three vans full
of supplies them clothes in different
sizes and easy food, finding the
homeless in doorways, and alleys,
street corners and handing out the
supplies.

10.  The best thing about the book and
what this team (who call themselves
“Yo! Angel”) is how they weren’t just
giving out necessities to those in need,
but also provide them hope. That’s
what made the people they served
(‘clients’) more grateful and happy.
More than getting what they need, they
know that someone cares for them,
someone knows and want to help, that
they’re not alone. Just this knowledge
that you’re loved can make anyone
live through a day and that’s precisely
what Yo! Angels provided them.

11. The gift of hope.
 The book’s full of instances, the author
and her team’s doubts and decisions,
struggles and helplessness in some
cases, because whatever they did, they
saw greater need. There never seemed
to be enough. Also, it’s not easy to just
go out and hand out supplies to the
homeless. There are risks which the
author talks about from her experience.

12.  The book’s full of heart-warming
stories of people they served, how
grateful they were when they saw
someone helping them get over their
needs, if only little by little. It was a
humbling experience to even read
about it, especially how people either
simply cried, or smiled or were
thankful. Never in her eleven years of
experience did she encounter greed.
Some stories were humbling, some
profound and all of them intense.
There are thousands of people without
a home, who shy away from shelters
because of the dangers there.

13.  At the end, the author talks about other
outreach agencies and teams that are
working in different ways for the
homeless and a plea for financial help,
as the need now is ever more and
increasing day by day.

15. By: Mery
Zabaleta
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