Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group's 23-bed shelter, run by students and community volunteers, opens November 15. The associated food salvage project, which operates daily from November to April, will expand to serve three other programs this year, according to Virginia White '87, the committee's co-chair...
...shelter, in the basement of University Lutheran Church, has offered meals and beds every winter night since 1982 and is one of only two such residential shelters in Cambridge...
...food goes to the Harvard shelter's 23 guests, a center for alcoholics in Somerville, a Cambridge service for the elderly, and a new program called HOPE (Help Other People Eat). Cambridge-based activist Carolyn Tribe founded HOPE last winter, but Harvard students will serve meals to the homeless from HOPE's vans for the first time this fall...
White said, "It's getting colder and you can see a lot of the same people on the streets. And there are lots of new faces too." She said the shelter supervisors try to find beds in other shelters for the people they turn away...
...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...