Basic needs for NeedyHomeless
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Help us provide special Passover food items and other necessary provisions for impoverished so they can observe Passover with dignity and joy.
The Bay Area has one of the largest and least sheltered homeless populations in the country. Although this is one of the most prosperous regions in the world, every night thousands of people sleep on our streets. It is deeply dehumanizing to live on the street, and it’s deeply disheartening for everyone to live amid such despair. The social compact that undergirds the function of our cities has been broken.
To some, the Bay Area’s inability to solve homelessness demonstrates the failure of our progressive urbanism — a sign of our unwillingness to enforce standards of behavior on the street — along with our failed housing policy. To others, it is a symptom of a broader breakdown of American society — an expression of deep dislocations in the economy and the extremely high rates of drug use in the United States, along with a sense of despair among large swaths of the population.
Bay Area residents care deeply about this problem.In 2016, Alameda, Oakland, San Mateo, San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties all passed bond measures to fund more affordable housing. At the same time, many Bay Area municipalities have passed “sit-lie” ordinances to clear people experiencing homelessness from the streets. While housing solutions, from shelters to tiny home communities to permanent supportive housing, are supported in theory, residents resist allowing them in their neighborhoods. None of us want our most vulnerable neighbors to end up living on the street, yet it seems few of us want them housed next door.
We may never be able to “solve” homelessness entirely. But we can — and must — do a much better job at preventing homelessness, making it as brief as possible when it does occur and reducing its negative impacts on our neighborhoods. (http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-23/homelessness-bay-area)
Real Story:
"It was Thursday night around 10:30 PM raining outside 45 degrees temperature.There was a knock at my front door went and opened it.I saw a guy standing with dusty clothes. He started introducing to me stating that they moved in newly few blocks away from my house & his wife works for some government office i was not pretty sure.
They wanted to borrow a blanket from us.My wife walk to me and questioned him in which Building no proper answer. We don't want to judge him by the cover of book. We paused and ran inside house to get some blanket and handovered to him. He was very happy with smile he said "God bless you" and left. We felt so bad as we have seen these kind of situation back home in India. We even felt like should have given some food too but we don't want to be Judgemental. We were thinking about him whole night about how many doors he would have knocked before reaching my house. We are planning to start a program which can help people on the street with Basic needs like (Food,Clothes and Shelter). So,We initiated this program to take your valuable ideas & Suggestion in taking this project forward and help people in need in Bay Area".
Let's join hands together to fight against poverty.
"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."
— Adam Schiff, U.S. representative
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister and civil rights activist
"Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere."
— Kofi Annan, Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
— Aristotle, Greek philosopher
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
— Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader
"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
— Eli Khamarov, writer
Donation:
Any Generous Help would be welcome.Will make sure it reaches every individual who is in desperate needy without fail.Like food, Clothes, Blankets, Jackets & Used jackets etc...
Mailing address: 338 San petra Ct Apt 1,Milpitas, CA 95035
The Bay Area has one of the largest and least sheltered homeless populations in the country. Although this is one of the most prosperous regions in the world, every night thousands of people sleep on our streets. It is deeply dehumanizing to live on the street, and it’s deeply disheartening for everyone to live amid such despair. The social compact that undergirds the function of our cities has been broken.
To some, the Bay Area’s inability to solve homelessness demonstrates the failure of our progressive urbanism — a sign of our unwillingness to enforce standards of behavior on the street — along with our failed housing policy. To others, it is a symptom of a broader breakdown of American society — an expression of deep dislocations in the economy and the extremely high rates of drug use in the United States, along with a sense of despair among large swaths of the population.
Bay Area residents care deeply about this problem.In 2016, Alameda, Oakland, San Mateo, San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties all passed bond measures to fund more affordable housing. At the same time, many Bay Area municipalities have passed “sit-lie” ordinances to clear people experiencing homelessness from the streets. While housing solutions, from shelters to tiny home communities to permanent supportive housing, are supported in theory, residents resist allowing them in their neighborhoods. None of us want our most vulnerable neighbors to end up living on the street, yet it seems few of us want them housed next door.
We may never be able to “solve” homelessness entirely. But we can — and must — do a much better job at preventing homelessness, making it as brief as possible when it does occur and reducing its negative impacts on our neighborhoods. (http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-23/homelessness-bay-area)
Real Story:
"It was Thursday night around 10:30 PM raining outside 45 degrees temperature.There was a knock at my front door went and opened it.I saw a guy standing with dusty clothes. He started introducing to me stating that they moved in newly few blocks away from my house & his wife works for some government office i was not pretty sure.
They wanted to borrow a blanket from us.My wife walk to me and questioned him in which Building no proper answer. We don't want to judge him by the cover of book. We paused and ran inside house to get some blanket and handovered to him. He was very happy with smile he said "God bless you" and left. We felt so bad as we have seen these kind of situation back home in India. We even felt like should have given some food too but we don't want to be Judgemental. We were thinking about him whole night about how many doors he would have knocked before reaching my house. We are planning to start a program which can help people on the street with Basic needs like (Food,Clothes and Shelter). So,We initiated this program to take your valuable ideas & Suggestion in taking this project forward and help people in need in Bay Area".
Let's join hands together to fight against poverty.
"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."
— Adam Schiff, U.S. representative
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister and civil rights activist
"Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere."
— Kofi Annan, Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
— Aristotle, Greek philosopher
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
— Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader
"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
— Eli Khamarov, writer
Donation:
Any Generous Help would be welcome.Will make sure it reaches every individual who is in desperate needy without fail.Like food, Clothes, Blankets, Jackets & Used jackets etc...
Mailing address: 338 San petra Ct Apt 1,Milpitas, CA 95035
Organizer
Niha Pathipati
Organizer
Milpitas, CA
