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...create more awareness and support for veterans’ issues,” said Ann L. Gallo, a movement control officer in Iraq and current co-president of the Business School Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA). “We held a fundraiser to help New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans a few weeks...
...Jeevatharsini lost the arm in artillery shelling five months ago, says her father Loganathan Sinnathambi, who farmed rice until the family was forced to flee fighting between government soldiers and rebel forces in their hometown of Trincomalee last July. They headed south, but each time they found shelter with a relative or in a camp for internally displaced people, as refugees within their own country are known, fighting would erupt again and they would be forced to move on. Last November, the family was cowering inside a tent at a camp in the town of Kathiraveli during a bombardment when...
There are 455 homeless people in Cambridge, 22 more than in 2006, according to the census, conducted in January. Nearly 12 percent of those individuals were not in any sort of shelter...
...people you might find out there on any given night, but it is helpful because it keeps people cognizant of the situation,” said Mallory R. Hellman ’08, who gathered data for the census and is the outreach director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter...
...addition to raising awareness, the census can highlight trends in the shelter population—for example, whether there are more men or more women, Goughan said...