Word: homelessness
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About half the population of Europe lives along rivers, but suddenly water was the bane of the Continent. Fed by torrential rains, floods from the Black Sea to the Baltic took roughly 100 lives, left thousands homeless and caused billions of dollars' worth of damage to the farms, cities and hamlets of Central and Eastern Europe. Prague looked like a city under siege. Military rescue vehicles rumbled down the Czech capital's flooded streets, in which soldiers, firemen and volunteers labored to rescue stranded citizens and keep the Vltava River, which winds through the city, from destroying architectural treasures. They...
...Europe for years, I saw that the lives of my friends also born in 1937 had been affected greatly by the state of the world around them. For many of those overseas contemporaries growing up during World War II, that state of the world left them orphaned or homeless. Their parents may have thought wisely about life insurance, but their parents' generation had not thought wisely about world conditions. Over the heads of our own children now hang other threats from world conditions, different from the threats...
...follow carefully. They are determined and are doing extremely well detecting those engaging in corrupt practices. TIME: How are former child combatants in the civil war being reintegrated into society? Kabbah: We've set up a commission to rehabilitate these children and provide homes to those who are homeless. We're making progress. School-age children are being sent to school, and others are being trained to undertake vocations...
...officer was sent to William James Hall on a report of a homeless person in the building. A search for the individual turned up negative...
...Cabrini, but even with a voucher she found herself priced out of her neighborhood. While she expanded her search to the city's North and South sides, she was forced to move her family in with her mother. "If it weren't for her, I would have been homeless," Brewster recalls. "I couldn't find a decent place. The only apartment I could find was in a slum area" suffering from "drug issues, gang issues and neglect." Brewster finally found a place close to her old neighborhood, but she had to empty her savings and borrow to scrape together...