. I was working at a soup kitchen and have been reprimanded repeatedly for giving rides to the homeless or any client to the Bus Station. They were just trying to be cautious telling me that I didn’t know these people and afraid that I might have been harmed. There was also some liability involved….
. I drove by a woman holding a cardboard sign saying homeless please pray for me. I went around the block and came back to talk to her. After I went and bought her food and a hot cup of coffee, we talked for the better part of an hour. She is disabled and doctors…
. I live in Miami, Florida and work downtown. Years ago we had a couple of record breaking cold temperature nights during our short winter and I saw a homeless man curled up, shaking and sleeping on the floor on my way home at almost 10 p.m. It was freezing by our standards and it…
. Today at Wal-Mart there was a guy standing in the cold wind with a sign that he is out of work and has kids. I parked and went in, did my shopping then got in my car to leave. I was driving past him on my way out and made the decision to go…
. My young boys and I were shopping recently and noticed a scruffy fellow pacing the isles counting coins in his hands and picking up items and putting them back. He was in total despair.
. A couple of years ago, I moved across the country with my family. I was lonely and didn’t know anyone. My husband brought a friend home for dinner one night – he was a homeless man who was friends with my husband’s mom. He lived in a tent on someone else’s property and worked…
. My parents were not wealthy and struggled to put food on the table for us 5 kids. One night, a homeless man knocked on our door and told my mom he just moved into the neighborhood and he had no food in the house, so would it be ok to ask for a sandwich?
. I went to the service station to put a little petrol in my car. At the next pump was a rundown car. In the front passenger seat was a woman, in the back, a young boy – probably the son of the woman and the man who stood at her open window abusing her….
. My daughter was approached by a homeless man and was asked for money to eat. After having the different thoughts cross her mind, she told him she’d be right back. She returned with several burgers, fries and a drink. When she was giving him the food, she asked him if he would let her…
. In May last year, my house was burnt down by my five year old son. I was 32 weeks pregnant with my fourth child and suddenly homeless with only the clothes on our back. About a month later while walking to my car after an antenatal appointment, my phone rang and it was the…
. This is a story I was told about my grandfather who passed before I was born, but I have used it as my inspiration to be as good as I can to everyone I come in contact with. Every day for years my grandpa would take his work crew to breakfast before starting their…
. When I used to live in Perth, Australia. There are a lot of homeless persons there due to the imbalance of riches. At Christmas, I would make a huge gluten-free Christmas cake, slice it into about 20 decent size slices and wrap them in gold paper and ribbons and hand them out on Christmas…