Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recounted the story of a young homeless boy who fell victim to societal neglect...
City Year, which ties together five concurrentpublic service projects on the environment,housing and the homeless, youth leadership,education and service for Chelsea, Mass., drawsfunding from corporate sponsors and an annualserv-a-thon...
...cities cope? No one knows for sure. Without question, urbanization has produced miseries so ghastly that they are difficult to comprehend. In Cairo, children who elsewhere might be in kindergarten can be found digging through clots of ox dung, looking for undigested kernels of corn to eat. Young, homeless thieves in Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby may not know their last names or the names of the villages where they were born. In the inner cities of America, newspapers regularly report on newborn babies dropped into garbage bins by drug-addicted mothers...
...first modern urban apocalypse could easily have started at 7:18 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1985. That was when an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale rocked Mexico City. Hundreds of thousands were left homeless, water mains broke, the threat of epidemics loomed, and the government fumbled helplessly in dealing with the crisis...
Kontoff, who regularly donates leftover bagels to homeless shelters and to the charity group Food Not Bombs, uses his pushcart to comment on such issues as minority rights, the crisis in Somalia and environmental protection...