Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spending an afternoon with an underprivileged child, tutoring or just caring is a vitally important and wonderful deed--not to be belittled. But it is not enough. Community service programs must also ask why the ghetto is there, why the elderly are alone and why many poor women need shelter and additional special help. A commitment to social change must accompany any serious commitment to do social good...
...question how a city can be thriving economically when thousands of its residents are without adequate food, shelter and health care," said Nancy Ryan, executive director of the Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women...
...typical night at the shelter, student volunteers arrive at 9 p.m. to prepare dinner from donated food. Starting at 9:45, people enter, eat, and socialize with volunteers and other guests. The shelter is 'dry', and sends intoxicated people to the Somerville program. Curfew is at 11 p.m. and at least two volunteers stay overnight. They prepare breakfast in the morning...
...shelter consists of a dormitory with mattresses, plus bathrooms, a kitchen, dining room, and recreation room. One closet is full of donated winter clothing and boots, which any guest may take...
...SANCTUARY FOR THE OPPRESSED FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. Fife is now facing the consequences of that proclamation. This week he and an ecumenical group of ten others, including two Roman Catholic priests and a nun, will go on trial in Tucson on charges of conspiring to transport and shelter Central American aliens. If they are found guilty, the sentences on the conspiracy charges could be as severe as five years in prison and $10,000 fines...