Word: hosteler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sanctuary, the Cambridge hostel and counseling service for street people, has received a three-year grant of $52,000 from an Indiana foundation. The donation represents the first multi-year grant in the brief one-and-a-half-year history of the operation...
...money, which is to be spaced over a three-year period, is earmarked for staff salaries at Sanctuary's counseling service in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church on Mass. Ave., rather than for the more publicized hostel on Mt. Auburn St. The counseling portion of Sanctuary deals with young people on an individual basis, while the hostel's main emphasis is on providing a place for transients to sleep...
...grant will supply only a small portion of Sanctuary's total budget, which Sears estimated at $400,000. That amount is split evenly between the hostel and counseling operations...
...shooting for an opening time of late June. Counseling operations and crisis services will be located on the first floor where the bar used to be. The hostel will be on the second floor if we can afford to install enough new plumbing," Marquand said...
...survived an attack on his village by U.S. planes because he was playing in a distant field; an old woman sent him to Saigon, and for three years he shined shoes and slept on the streets until he moved to Hughes' "Hope 5" hostel. After his father was killed by the Viet Cong, Nguyen Van Thanh. 12, ran away from his village and met a bar girl who brought him to Saigon; there he ran away again and moved to the streets. When Son ("Mountain") was eight, his mother left him in an orphanage and disappeared...