During those cold days of winter most of us have homes we can stay warm in, but those days are very hard on the homeless as they have no homes. A cold day can be very hard on them, even to the point where they can end up freezing to death. I know when i was homeless it was very hard to keep warm even in the car. This blog post will covered places that hopefully you can get help for them to stay warm in. I am some groups on Facebook that try to help the homeless and those in need too. I came across a service while i was looking through it and it's for the Ky area of the 859 area code.There is a picture below too. So if you see a homeless in need be sure to call them to get a homeless person some help.
I am looking around for other services that helps in this fashion too as i am working on writing this blog post. I feared that there might not be other services of this kind although. So i took it one step further by providing a how to link from homeless support website. When dealing with a problem it comes in handy knowing who to talk to. Mayors of states and cities are often who want to get in touch with. Ge friends and family in on it. The more people you have in on it the most likely you will be at getting the action to get it done. below is the link to the website. This will be all on this blog post.
When you think of micro homes you think of a small house being to small to lived in. Micro homes are perfect for someone that are homeless to have a roof over their heads. They can housed about two people and they can provide heat too if you use a solar panel on the roof. Or powered a small microwave to feed the homeless person or people. These homes can be built from free wood too that a lot of places just tossed away also. Really the only thing that is needed is a plot of land like a empty lot. I see solutions to the homeless problems all the time as vacant land plots not being used, or old buildings that have been empty forever. Society can be very wasteful in the way they waste their resources. Those land lots can be used for micro housing, those buildings can be use to house the homeless. While we waste resources like that homeless people suffered. This blog post talks some about the micror houses. they are also known as tiny houses too. For those that might want to read more about them check the link out below here.
Tiny houses are much better then tents as they can be kept warmer on the inside. Tiny houses were big back in 2007 and 2008 as people were starting to lose their homes so the idea have been used before. To me this would get the the homeless off the streets so they would be safer too. You can always find a empty plot of land that is not being used too. I see them all the time as i am driving around. Those plots of land could be donated to make a living area for the homeless. People complain about seeing them sleeping outside, but in all fairness where are they supposed to sleep at when homeless shelters are not around or they are filled up? Wouldn't a plot of land fill with micro houses look far better? If you answer yes to that question then you could be the force of changed that is needed to make it the real deal. Blog about it, make videos or just share this blog. Get it out there so people with the wealth and power will see it. This blog is getting the hits, but not nearly enough to to catch the eyes of those in power yet. People that i would loved to see this blogs are the mayors and the people that runs the cities and states. To make a different i need the attention of the people that can do it. If we can get their attention we can plant the seeds to a better solution for the homeless. Us working together we can do the impossible to make it possible. Check out the videos below to see some of the micro houses.
A haircut might not seem like it could help a homeless person out. But let us look at it from a different angle, if our hair is not taken care of it creates a look that can keep us from working and other problems too. I can recall one time when my pack was homeless. I went into a store to buy items that we needed to survived on the streets. The greeter there had some very lose lips. He went on to describe a shaggy looking guy that was in there before me. Calling him a bum because of his hair being messed up. He was talking about my dad. I let him continued to hanged himself some more before mentioning that he was talking about my dad even though i wanted to chewed him out. I bit my tongue till i could not take anymore. When i told him that was my dad, he went silent on me. Not to mention i recorded the conversation too. I then went to speak to the owner of the store, I played the recording to the owner too. Explaining that my dad and myself have come here many times to shop and buy items. I went on to tell him i did not want the guy fired. I told him educating the guy would be a better option. I spoke to the owner for about a half hour. And we parted our way. He then gave me a gift card for 500 bucks and told me that he would educate the greeter and the rest of his workers too on being better people. I not going to mention the store name or the guy name either because the problem was handled very well. I used this story as a reference to how people can profiled other people they come into contact with other people. This is how a haircut can helped a homeless person too.
A simple thing like a haircut can make a person feel great about themselves. For one thing they have someone they can talk to for a little while. This blog post is about free haircuts for the homeless and the barber business is in Newport Ky too. I drive past his business everyday too. This is the first time i have heard anything about him too, but he made the news on channel 9. If he has a website i will post it in the blog also. The news article will be added to this blog also so you can checked it out.
One of the biggest problem of being homeless is having a place where you can sleep and relaxed at. Cops always try to run you off and will threaten you by saying they will arrest you. So unless you have the land owner permission to stay there you will be mess with. Sometimes this isn't even good enough. I have had cops lied to me before saying that they got a call from the owners saying they wanted us out of there. Needless to say those cops got into trouble over doing this. This blog post is about a group of people trying to helped the homeless by providing a place where they can stay and throwing up tents for shelter for them when a building shelter is full or does not exist in that area. They are doing this by trying to buy land so the homeless will have a place to exist and be more safer for them too. I know when my pack was homeless I had to watched out for cops that would try to run us out of our sleeping spots. I would loved to see programs go up like the one i am talking about in this blog post go up all over the USA. Not Just In New Jersey. It's a start in the right direction although for now and it's for that reason that I am writing about it in this blog post. With the temperatures more homeless people will be at risk of freezing to death. This can be overcome too. It takes people working together to overcome it although, no one by themselves will overcome this problem.
The solution to any problem is to become part of the solution, not part of the problem. Only when we stopped trying to make life harder for the homeless will this world be better place. The old saying of don't kick a the dog while it is down is true for a person too. Instead of making a homeless person life harder we should be trying to help them better themselves. A person working alone is good, but a collective group working together is what it is going to take to end homeless cycle. And that is what one group of people are doing too, there is a lot of red tape to the homeless problem. Only when we stopped thinking of being homeless as a crime which it is not will we be able to help the homeless.
The land for the homeless program is a very good idea, and i would loved to see it all over in all the states and cities too. It is a needed thing to help keep the homeless safe and to helped them too. Maybe blogging about them will be the thing that gets the program started in other other states and cities too. And it will help them out too. The time to have done something was many years ago, but it's never to late to begin now. Below are some links to this program that you can check out to learn more about it, maybe even lend a hand in helping them too. the links are below here.
The video above some about the homeless problem, and the one below is about tent city. Tent city was destroyed by cops .
Be sure to read my other blog post too on this blog. If we failed to show compassion as a society then we failed the human race. Compassion is what gives us the power to saved humanity. This is it on this blog post for now. Be sure to follow me if you loved my writing too.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
As Christmas gets closer you can’t help not to notice the world around you. The struggles of everyday people as they go about their lives. There are people out there that will not know the comforts of a home this year or a home cook Christmas meal, instead they will only feel the coldness of the weather, and the loneliness of not having those things. I know i spent almost threes years like that living in a auto while i was fighting to get my disability so i know how it feels. I wished it upon no one, it’s not the kind of life that no one should be living. And it’s the kind of thing that can be fixed too, each one of us can make a big difference in someone’s life, they do not have to go at it alone. Social sites like Facebook can make a big difference in society. If each of us was involved in the fight to end the problem it could blossomed into something really beautiful and meaningful too. The homeless people and the people in need would have a better life. There are billions of users on Facebook alone, this is not counting the other social sites out there. If each of those sites were more attuned to the needs of society we would have a powerful tool to help people out. We used social sites to get the word out on causes all the time, but we are only using a small amount of that powerful tool. Money that those people need to get out of their problems could be raised by those billions of people. Those billions of people working together could make lives better and it would cost so little too. A simple donation of one buck could turn into 100.000 of bucks, more then enough to better someone’s life. Homes could be brought for the homeless and money could be raised to assured that home owners would not become homeless. We see it everyday someone on Facebook trying to raised money to saved their homes. We might think of it as a scam to raised money. Maybe it is and maybe it’s not, if we do nothing and they end up homeless then we failed to prevent it. This note will talked about ways of helping those that needs it. See below my ideas on how to help people out.
1. We have all seen that homeless person sitting outside on a hot or cold night. We may have thought i wished i could helped them. Well you can help them out, a gofundme page can be set up or another fund raising page. These pages can be set up by anyone too. This is a powerful tool that can raised the needed funds to help out someone. Once the goal of the fund is reached a check or some other method is used to send the money. The money can then be used to helped that homeless person. Rather it be to buy that homeless person a house or to rent them a house for a whole year so they can get back on their feet. It feels great doing good deeds too. That one good deed can changed someone’s life too, it can have a everlasting affect on both the homeless person and you. This idea has been done before too by a youtuber that i will linked here. The video is below here if want to see it.
2. Setting up care package is another way of helping homeless people too. Care packages can be set up by buying things at any dollar store like dollar tree everything is only a buck there too. care packages would have things like a toothbrush and toothpaste, toilet tissue, gloves, socks, hats, food that does not need to in frig or heated. Shampoo and body wash, you can even add fast food gift cards to it also. Care packages should have helpful items in it that will keep that person going so they do not lose hope. I will put some videos on this part up so you can have some useful ideas as to how to make care packages too. And lets not forget the fur babies too that homeless person might have they need to be taken cared of too. A great way to raised funds for care packages is to get yourself sponsors who can donate items or money for the items in the care packages. A lot of businesses will donate those items too all you have to do is asked.
3. Donate your time to a soup kitchen as they are sometimes called. You can also donate food there too. Food is always needed to feed those in need or the homeless. Yo will have to look around in your areas to find them although. And of course we can’t forget the food banks too, those are places that pass out free food to the homeless and those in need too. They are a big help to the needy. I will post some of the videos that talks about them below.
4. Homeless care sheets. This is a list of places you can put together on sheets of paper that have a listing of places that can helped out those in need. A lot of times people have no idea that there are places out there that can helped them out. A listing of those places can be a great blessing to them. Be sure to have the address and phone numbers of those places so they can find them although.
Being homeless Is a very scary thing. You never know If someone will mess with you In the middle of the night. Or If you gonna come across a bad cop that will make your life that much harder. But there are things that society can do to help the homeless and they are simple things too. And If you have a business then that Is even better. Because business can give to homeless shelters and other places that feeds the homeless. I know being homeless Is Is rough because me and my dad are homeless too. We have been homeless going on on over two years now and we know how the cops mess with the homeless. How people gawks at us like we are from another world. The simple truth Is that we are people just like you that have lost our jobs. My dad has income, but not enough to get us a roof over our heads yet. We sleep In a van where ever places will let us sleep. Our van Is below here I have a picture for you.
Having a van to sleep Is does not feel the same as having a roof over your head. For one thing people tend to be snooped and they will look In at you and stared at you like you have two heads. They do not care about your privacy and you have no privacy tinted windows do help. But you can still see them looking In on you. To me this Is just plain rude so you should not be doing that at all.
After all would you want someone looking Into your window while you were asleep? On the up and up you do have good people that will slip money In through your windows every now and then. I call those people blessings because that Is what they are to me. Because the one thing you do not want to do Is run out of gas. You run out of gas and you cannot move your car. The cops will be more than happy to tow It not caring that you are using It as a sleeping area.
Before we had the van I had a Geo Prizm that we use as a sleeping area. I will post the pictures to It below too. It got totaled by a guy going to fast In a head on collision. It was not a pretty sight. Me and my dad ended up having to sleep two nights on In the woods because of that. Below are the pictures of the Prizm and where we slept at In the woods.
About sleep In the woods that Is a scary thing to do because In the night you can feel things crawling all over you and you hear things moving In the middle of the night too. We had our dog to protect us although. But It's still not paradise. We slept In the woods behind a dollar general because cops tend to come through the woods looking for people that are sleeping In the woods.and at least In a car you can drive away. While In the woods you have no place to go really. Below you will find some pictures of me and my dad and our dog. I am the younger guy In the picture and he Is older.
And now onto other things like the things that society can do to help out the homeless and other stuff. I will list as I come across them. But one of the main things Is food. Without food we would all died out. You can help out there by donating to places that feed the homeless and shelters them too. Places like Lifeline are a big help to us as they feed us and give us clothing and food. Without Lifeline we would be a world of hurt. I will provide you with the link with Lifeline In It so you can read more about them too. This place Is a blessing and they can use donations as In food,clothing and money. The link to the article with their link In It below. The website that had my article on lifeline went and closed their website down on me. So my article on them is gone as well most likely unless it's back up on my laptop. Which i might have but is doubtful, i did back up some of my stuff. 900 plus articles gone. o i decided to link their website and Facebook and Youtube channel below. These people are very kind hearted and friendly too. They provide free clothing and food for the homeless and needy. Their youtube channel have tons of videos on it to so you can see and hear what they are doing to help out people. See the links below to learn more about them.
Another really great Facebook group is the good Samaritans, they help me out a lot during my homeless times. They are a really great group of people if you have access to the web.
The other thing that I notice people tend to do Is they call the cops on everything they see. Now why would you do that? Cops tend to bother the homeless more than helped them. And plus when you call on the homeless somewhere a crime Is being committed that cop could have taken care of. After all we are not committing a crime. The camping outlaw that they were not really a law and If you challenge them on It most of the time they will leave you alone.
One other thing that really helps us out Is to not hate on us. You will be surprise at the amount of people that will try to start a fight with you. I mean really we are already down on our luck and you want to pound us into the ground because we are homeless and you think of us as dirt. Karma has a way paying people like that back and you may end us homeless one of these days too. So take that Into account If you are one of those people that like to bullied people like us. Well this Is all I have for now really. I will add more to It as I think of other stuff. Thank you for reading my stuff If you did for now.
As I said I will be upgrading this blog from time to time so that It has the latest news and happenings on It. And I thought of something that I have not heard of In a long time. No ideal If anyone knows what a community garden Is or not. But It's a garden where everyone takes care of It. And In return you can pick the fruits and vegetables from It In return. When the fruits and vegetables run out you replant It with more seeds so there will be more for the next wave of people. It Is most of the time on the honor system meaning that you take the word of the person for It. This can be very helpful If you have a nice size piece of land that can be use grow the stuff on. The people just come In there and help out. I will be doing a article on this on my bubblew account which I will link here for everyone to see so check back on It In a day or so. Which will give me more time to research It. Pretty much all I have for now on that.
Ok so It didn't take me a day to throw together an article on the garden ideal. Lol But If I am anything It Is the fact that I am resourceful. I threw together the garden ideal at the address below here and I even try to make my point on the homeless problem too In the article. I am gonna email the Florence city mayor this blog too so she she can see It also. Who knows maybe she will put some of my ideas to work and will see the fruition start to take fold around us. Nothing would make me more happy than to know that my labors of writing took roots and people are using the ideas that I write about to make life easier on the homeless. But the link to the garden ideal Is below here. The website i did my article went down for good. So my article went with it too. I am very sorry that this happen so i am going to place a video up on how to start up a community garden for the homeless and needy. I am going to have to fixed this whole blog since all my article all 900 plus articles are gone. Please see the videos below on how to start up one of these gardens.
When you are homeless getting a good night's sleep Is always very problematic for you. But It does not really have to be that way. Local businesses could let you sleep In their parking lots and have their own eyes on their business why they are home asleep. And this Is what this part of my blog Is about too. It's gonna be about how the local businesses big and small can help us out and have a extra set of eyes on their business at the same time too. I will list the benefits below here on how having an extra set of eyes can help the business owners out and help us to get a good night's sleep too. Well as good as we can get considering that we are living out of our cars and sleeping In the woods If we are unlucky enough to have a car or van.
Now you might be thinking I do not want a bum as some calls us or homeless person sleeping In my parking lot over night. But pause your thinking right there and think about It. An extra set of free eyes on your business Is a very good thing. Because most homeless people have cell phones that they can call the police on or local law enforcement places. By having that person there you have protection from people that would mess your parking lot up our business. And plus they can pick up the place too before they go and leave helping you to maintain a clean parking lot making your business and parking lot pleasing to the eyes of your patrons. It Is a win win scene that helps the homeless person out and give them a place to sleep during the night. And If they happen to have a dog then that Is a even bigger plus too as the dog barking will scare off any would be thug away from your business.
You could even leave a notice with the cops that you are there to watch their business and so that you can sleep too so that they will leave us alone and only come If they are called to do so. And even print up a contract with the homeless person too letting them know what they can and can't do. A very good business deal where both parties can be a winner. I will try to find a link to where someone Is talking about this so you can read more about It and see for yourself\. Hey maybe this homeless person Isn't so bad after all.
I have looked online for a website that talks about this only to come up with none. But this Is a very good ideal and it pays off to for the business owner because he has no need for a cam on his lot. Me myself I have a cam that takes pictures and video. So that solves that problem right there for the business owners and most cams have blind spots too. But the eyes do not and can snap the videos for the person that owns the business that would most likely get the person that did the crime caught as he would be on video or has his pictures taken. This Is all I have for now. I am working on a section that will talk about how the homeless can be of service to the cops If they did not mess with the homeless people. But that will be a next time.
