Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soup kitchens will not reduce the number of homeless people, and tutoring programs cannot overcome racism, poverty, illiteracy, or environmental distruction. These are the issues which PBHA volunteers confront every day. Month after month, PBHers dive into the river and try to teach their pupils to swim. But, day in and day out, the stream of refugees and illiterates seems to grow longer...
...small wonder that the directors of homeless shelters and big-sibling programs should look for more enduring solutions. Like the man who walked upstream, the PBH leadership recognizes the need to address society's ills on two fronts. A real solution must change the system that is producing homelessness and illiteracy in the first place. And the only way to change the system is to say when it is wrong...
...past eight years, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Committee on the Homeless has sponsored a shelter in the basement of the University Lutheran Church...
...justice on the "Original Position." In this hypothetical situation, people decide before they are born how to organize the society in which they will live. The actors have no idea of the places they will occupy in this society--one might end up a corporate magnate or a homeless person...
...they drive just one volunteer away from their organization because of politicking, then there is one less person serving the community. There is one less student who will have a tutor. There is one less person who will have someone to talk to during a meal at a homeless shelter. If there is one less person volunteering for PBHA as a result of this endorsement game, then PBHA has hurt the people it is trying to serve...