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...group dissipated when the core group of students graduated in 2004.According to Kessler, Braxton spoke during the past two years of resurrecting HMAR, and so he and other OSAPR members restarted HMAR in the spring of 2007 as a subset of the OSAPR Student Alliance, a co-ed undergraduate outreach group aiming to raise awareness about social issues on campus.The newly-formed HMAR receives more guidance from OSAPR than its predecessor and is “democratic” without official positions, Braxton said.Van Niel, who is also a Harvard varsity football player, said HMAR seeks to create a safe...
...Last month, Heathrow commissioned a local homeless outreach organization, Broadway, to visit the airport once a week and survey its homeless population, while also trying try to coax them into temporary accommodation. They were not prepared for the scale of the problem they discovered: In the first four weeks alone, they conducted 100 interviews with homeless "passengers" - although some of those were repeat interviews, the number was far higher than anyone had expected...
...When TIME joined the outreach worker and police officers this week, the homeless people contacted included a man sleeping under his coat, another conspicuously hiding behind an open newspaper, and a woman clutching a duty free bag who insisted she was waiting for a flight, only to whisper when police were out of earshot: "I can't afford electricity; it's warm here; please, let me stay...
Paul D. Beran, the director of the Outreach Center at CMES, emphasized the multitude of populations that share in the Nowruz holiday...
...priorities for the police here in Jardim Angela is making themselves visible. They have reached out to the community by visiting businesses, setting up a free library in the local police station and even helping out at an orphanage. Their outreach program convinced many bars in one area to close down voluntarily after 10 p.m. and tonight, as they wind their SUVs through the dimly lit streets, they stop people as much to get to know them as search for drugs or guns. "The primordial factor here is that they don't see us as the enemy...