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...Missionaries' first projects, in 1952, was to turn a former hostel beside a Hindu temple into a place where the poor of Calcutta, who often died alone in the streets, could spend their last hours in comfort and cleanliness. As a Catholic mission, the sisters faced alienation and neighborhood hostility. The temple priests even asked city authorities to relocate the newly named Nirmal Hriday, or Home for the Dying, hospice. But then one of the Hindu priests was found with advanced stages of tuberculosis after he had been denied a bed in a city hospital, reserved for those who could...
This is the sort of person friends say he was: loose, tender, open, funny. His one-bedroom apartment was a hostel where anyone could go to crash--on the couch, in the tub. The dog he picked out at an animal shelter was selected "because Jonathan thought he couldn't survive the aggressiveness of the other dogs." There was no ostentation in him, as there is none in his father. Someone recalls that Jerry told his son, "I'd like to talk to you about finances." Jonathan replied, "I'd love to Dad, but I'm a little strapped today...
...groups sat apart until a guest at the hostel showed a collection of turn-of-the-century photographs...
...teenagers and coordinators stayed overnight at the Boston Youth Hostel...
According Mark Gesner, director of the Boston hostel, most people don't realize hostels support educational programs and other charities...