Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organization dedicated to establishing a new drop-in shelter for the Cambridge homeless is trying to bring residents, students and the homeless together by holding picnics with music and free food in Cambridge Common...
Beginning May 13, the Harvard Community Cooperative will hold "Bread and Jams" picnics every Sunday at 5 p.m. in an effort to bridge "the gap between students and non-students," according to homeless activist Tom Boland...
...purpose isn't just to provide meals but to achieve a community," said Joel B. Gerwin '92. "In shelters and soup kitchens, I've never felt able to talk to the homeless because they were being served and I was serving...
Cooperative members said they hope the picnics fulfill the role that a drop-in shelter would--providing the homeless with a place to gather before night shelters open, usually around...
...cooperative has been looking to establish a new drop-in shelter ever since Harvard bought St. Paul's Church property and subsequently closed a shelter in the rectory basement. That shelter had brought together musicians students, residents and the homeless, Farkouh said...