Word: homelessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last thing Haiti needed. A 6.1-magnitude aftershock struck the country shortly after 6 a.m. on Jan. 20, barely a week after the capital Port-au-Prince was flattened by a massive earthquake that killed as many as 200,000 and left 1.5 million homeless. Aid groups fear that the tremor--the worst of the dozens of aftershocks that have hit Haiti since the quake--could hinder the delivery of food and water. About 4,000 additional U.S. troops have been pledged to Haiti to help deliver aid, bringing the total...
PBHA Vice President Christopher J. Loney ’11 said the organization was looking to expand upon this year’s initiatives, which included Habitat for Humanity trips to Guatemala and New Orleans, after school programs, and work with the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter...
...perhaps even the U.S. Congress to craft more-uniform laws to prevent the kind of residency-restriction arms race that Florida let local governments wage. "The safety of Floridians has suffered as local politicians have tried to one-up each other with policies that have resulted in colonies of homeless sex offenders left to roam our streets," says state senator Dave Aronberg, a Democrat running for state attorney general. The excessive rules, he adds, "have the effect of driving offenders underground and off law enforcement's radar." Aronberg is co-sponsoring a new bill that would establish uniform statewide residency...
...international aid. While no accurate death toll figure exists yet, The Haitian government has said that 150,000 have died in the capital of Port-au-Prince alone. The capital lies in ruins, and the surviving population hangs by a thread in tent towns now housing millions of homeless Haitians...
...Harvard Office of Sustainability, in conjunction with the Whole Foods in Medford, is collecting old keys to donate to Key For Hope, a Massachusetts charity. The profits from recycling the keys donated to the Medford store will then be used to purchase food for the homeless at cost, according to Jennifer Kump, the store’s marketing team leader...