 | Homelessness My wife and I spent a part of our weekend in Athens, Ohio doing a fundraising "Walk for the Homeless." This was in support of a non-profit organization called Good Works, Inc. whose Executive Director has been a personal friend of ours for three decades.
It was a wonderful opportunity to help people whose circumstances, choices, relationships and systems have conspired to place them in a situation of homelessness -- and often hopelessness. This organization treats not only the symptom of homelessness but seeks to get to the root of that homelessness and then with loyal assistance and restoration of dignity and responsibility, help these people back to being contributors in their communities. Check them out at good-works.net.
In this small rural Ohio community Good Works is the ONLY shelter serving 9 counties. It is in the heart of Appalachia -- the poorest part of Ohio. Yet 433 people walked for the homeless yesterday and raised more than $37,000 dollars for this worthy ministry. |
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Craig, glad to see you in the blogosphere, my friend. FYI - you can determine whether or not commenters have their own blogs by merely clicking on their screen name.
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