Word: help
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...AIDS needed was a place to call home. From that admission was born the concept of linkage. Rather than merely providing a shelter, homeless advocates are weaving a web. By combining detoxification programs, job training, day care, parenting classes, health care and social services under one roof, they can help the street people who are unwilling or unable to travel all over town to find the services they need -- if those services exist...
...absence of leadership from Washington, local governments and private groups have spent countless millions of hours and dollars on this problem. Because the homeless population varies so greatly from city to city, community groups often devise the most ingenious solutions -- especially when they can enlist the help of corporations, banks and local government. In New York, America Works trains welfare recipients for jobs and pays their salaries for the first four months; if the employer is satisfied and hires a worker permanently (usually about 70% of trainees make it), America Works collects a $5,000 fee from the state. Employers...
Finally, perhaps the single greatest source of help for the homeless comes from volunteers. Frustrated, angry, ashamed that a country so wealthy should ignore such poverty, volunteers give money and their time to manning the soup kitchens, supervising the church basements at night, distributing information, teaching reading, running clothing drives. In the process, they are learning invaluable lessons about what works and what does not. For example...
...beyond shelter. Providing a roof for the night is not enough, and in many cities the shelters are not full. Homeless people need a place that is safe and that addresses their needs. Drug addicts need treatment; the mentally ill need guidance; single mothers need help with child rearing; most homeless people need job training and health care. Don't make them commute all over town...
...come to pick up about 400 Libyan prisoners released by Deby, some of whom had been jailed since 1982, and to unload "humanitarian supplies," including a Renault luxury sedan, apparently a gift to Deby from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Deby defended freeing the Libyans as a move to help maintain good relations with Chad's northern neighbor. However, the prisoner release, along with reports that Libya provided at least 40% of the equipment for Deby's army, stirred fears that Gaddafi is poised to use Chad as a base to project his influence throughout the region...