Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government has no social policy at all; in fact, it has no social sense. There are some emergency relief operations for the homeless, but nothing is done on a serious scale to combat the diseases (malaria, conjunctivitis, amebic dysentery) which ravage the country. There is no overall plan to help agriculture or expand education facilities...
...everywhere. They will need an ocean of blood, plasma and plasma substitutes for transfusions. They will need a mountain of bandages to dress burns and other injuries. Buildings such as schools should be set aside as emergency hospitals. There must be plans for evacuating, sheltering and feeding the myriad homeless...
...voters in Western Germany's "poor house," Schleswig-Holstein (pop. 2,700,000), last week elected a new state parliament. A brand-new party, Bund der Heimatvertriebenen und Entrechteten (Association of Homeless and Rightless), got 23.4% of the votes...
When civil war came to their village in central Greece, both Costas Psofios and Dimitrios Golfis lost their homes by fire. Like thousands of other homeless Greeks, they took to the road, eventually settled down on a rocky hillside near Athens. Psofios prospered, soon had a sizable herd of goats, whose milk he sold in an Athens suburb. Golfis did not fare so well; his small plot of land barely supported him and his son Andreas. Finally, 64-year-old Golfis was forced to go to work for 34-year-old Psofios, tending his goats...
...Pledge. As assistant pastor in his first parish, Don Zeno attracted children to church with a Punch and Judy show, later built a small amusement park on the church grounds. When homeless children turned up, he lodged them in a nearby house. By 1946 he was looking after 250 children, had enlisted 28 foster mothers...