Here’s the tale of how a homeless person become something, and started making contributions to the community that he lives in, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
Providing the meals, the assistance to the homeless can only keep the homeless from starving, a couple of privately owned organizations are now, working on helping the homeless population to change their attitude, giving them a “fishing rod”, to learn a skill, helping them return to the workforce, so they can live on their own.
A few weeks ago, there were members in the homeless population in the Wanhua District’s Menjia park, with the coast with the seal of “580 (Helping You)”, from the words of mouth, “There is, a very kind name who came here recently.” The man who was handing out these jackets is the branch manager of the Living the Dream, Passing the Love, Care & Concerns Foundation, Hu.
Hu started working as an agent, and the homeless children called him, “Definitely Hu”. He said, that he’s now, well-established in business, but, he had, had his trials of life since he was growing up, his parents were fruit farmers in the southern regions, a huge storm had, destroyed all the harvests, their small pickup truck was stolen, and her mother was owed money, back then, there were people, knocking on his family’s doors to collect the debts. After he got himself better economically, he’d set up his mind to help others, and started the 580 Organization.
In order to spend money right where it’d counted, at the end of last year, Hu went to count the people at two thirty in the morning, to see how many homeless persons were there, and, he’d taken a month’s time, to investigate, just why these people had, come here to stay, and the sorts of troubles in their lives.
Hu found, that a portion of the homeless who live here would earn their living by holding up those advertisement signs on the streets during the daytime, and late in the evening, they’d returned to the park to rest; he’d provided them with clothes for the cold weather, and worked in correspondences with the small food shops around the region, so long as the homeless population took the stickers, handed out by his organization, then, they will have a meal served, on the organization.
Hu found, that the winter clothes donated to the homeless population were mostly sold for money, and this helped him learn to sort through to see who’s unfitting to receive the assistance. He believed, that rather than throwing money on hosting the once-a-year end of year meal gathering, the money would be better spent, on skills training for these people, so they can have a viable skill that can get them reintroduced back into the society, and his next focus will be on helping the members of the homeless community find suitable jobs.
And so, rather than handing them their free meals, here’s a better idea, why don’t the not-for-profit organizations, or government programs, help these homeless people gain a viable working skill, so that way, they can give back to the world, and make a living, and stop sucking ALL the world’s resources dry, plus, any city with the reducing number of the homeless population is a better place than before, or at least, that is what I believe!
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