9. To all existing shelters and related
homeless & poverty organizations ---
people that are actually in the “trenches”
helping the homeless and impoverished
every day. Please do NOT be offended by
comments made in this presentation.
All your efforts and kindness are not
forgotten. As you will see, it is time for the
“big dogs” to step up to the plate to
provide help to much greater numbers of
homeless and poor. Our nation is in
desperate need of a change. But, never
forget, you are true heroes!!! You can
provide great experience and knowledge
on the following project. Please get on
board and help make this happen!
A Note
11. According to the U.S.A.’s
National Coalition for
Homelessness, there are
several national estimates that
are based on dated information.
“The best approximation is from
a study done by The National
Law Center on Homelessness
and Poverty (2007), reporting
that approximately 3.5 million
people, 1.35 million of them
children, are likely to
experience homelessness
in a given year.”
Statistics Cont’d
12. A bad economy is scary in and of itself,
but the numbers of poor and homeless
are becoming even more horrifying.
In a great country such as ours, blessed
with so much wealth and “humanity,”
this is unbelievable as well as
unforgivable.
Secondly, we’re always in the rest of the
world’s business and we don’t even take
care of our own. I’m very ashamed of us.
Statistics Cont’d
14. “Well, I was lying, thinking, last
night, how to find my soul a home,
where water is not thirsty and
bread loaf is not stone. Well, I
came up with one thing, and I
don't believe that I'm wrong:
Alone, all alone, nobody can make
it out here alone. Nobody can
make it out here alone.
Well, there are some millionaires
with money they can't use, their
wives run around like banshees
and their children they're singing
the blues,
15. they've got expensive doctors to cure
they're hearts of stone, but nobody,
no nobody, can make it alone, alone,
all alone. Nobody can make it out
here alone.
Now if you listen closely, I'll tell you
what I know, storm clouds are
gathering, the wind is gonna blow,
the race of man is suffering, and I can
hear the moan, But nobody, no
nobody, can make it alone.”
“Alone” Cont’d
17. Homelessness and poverty are devastating,
de-humanizing, humiliating and destructive.
And, given the right circumstances, it can
happen to anyone, rich, as well as poor. All
it takes is one, two, or a series of
unfortunate events. For instance: natural
disaster, stock market crash and economic
depression, physical illness, mental illness,
post traumatic stress disorder, medical
bills, loss of job, bankruptcy, abusive
relationships, lack of positive adult role
models, physical and learning disabilities,
lack of education, prison record, poor
social skills, self-destructive behavior
(drugs and alcohol), poor credit scores, etc.
-- to name a few. Once on the streets, many
never recover. Life on the streets kills – and
not in a good way.
18. Year after year the U.S. continues
talking about the problems of poverty
and homelessness, forming
organizations to study these problems
and concerns, laying out statistics for
other governing organizations to
study their findings and arrive at new
statistics, blah blah blah!
Meanwhile these chronic social ills
keep whittling away at our nation’s
health and welfare, morale, and
economic and governing resources.
We know the money is there. We need
to stop talking and start acting to help
our discarded fellow human beings
and American citizens (many war
veteran-heroes). It’s time.
Let’s just do it!
19. “It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
- by Mother Teresa
21. Please be aware
this presentation
is not the result of
a fact finding
mission. The focal
point of this
presentation is a
viable solution to
homelessness,
poverty and
related issues
such as crime.
The following is
an actual model
and business
identity for a new
homeless center.
Presentation Focus Cont’d
25. The following 3
slides include color
variations for
Sanctuary Center
logo. Please note
the use of the Greek
symbol for omega
[W], meaning “the
end.”
Naturally this theme
is symbolic to the
reference of
“the end of
homelessness.”
These are only
ideas and not cast
in stone.
Sanctuary Center Cont’d
