Jordan Sullivan

CLUTCHING THE RABBIT: Story from Community & Social Justice Ministry

Posted on: 04/03/2012 08:35

A story from Rev Allen Tysick, The Victoria Dandelion Society Ministry http://dandelionsociety.ca/

I often wish that you my friends were beside me in my ministry on the street. Each morning I wake up about 50 or so of the homeless on the streets of Victoria. This morning I saw 58 men and women. It is impossible of course for all of you to be there, so let me attempt in my feeble way to bring you with me through the written word.

femmemomma

Witnessing Resurrection in Unlikely Places

Posted on: 04/24/2011 14:04

When I got a job at a youth shelter, I was thrilled. Not only was I going to be employed, but I was going to be working at a place that I had lived at when I was a street kid. I was passionate about helping youth who were experiencing hardships like I had been through and couldn't believe that this opportunity had been given to me.

Science and Story

Put a roof on poverty

Posted on: 11/19/2010 13:49

Did you know that it costs less to provide housing for the homeless than it does to leave them on the street?

How does that work? I'm glad you asked. Individuals in managed housing programs stay healthy or heal faster, and that keeps them out of the hospital, and that saves money.

donevans

FIRST UNITED CHURCH NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Posted on: 09/03/2010 21:18

Hi Folks,

Vote and help save our Cart and Belonging Storage Facility for the Homeless in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside!

VocalVal

Global Issues

Spare change, Spare change?

Posted on: 06/24/2009 17:37

Imagine this,

You are walking down a popular crowded street with thousands of people around you getting some kind of money from what they do. You know you have a home to go to, and are probably thinking if you'll be late or not, and then, you see this.

A poor helpless homeless person, sitting down in a corner, head dropped, hopeless, knowing that people just dont give him change. He has given up.

Jimbo59

Politics

The Commercialization of Poverty

Posted on: 02/15/2009 12:27

In the last few days I read an article in Walrus Magazine on how corporations and well-paid staff of NGOs are getting at least 80% of the money spent on reconstruction in Afghanistan and an article in Street Newz about how some social agencies, such as the Salvation Army in Victoria, are costing taxpayers more for providing accommodation than it would cost to just give poor people enough income to obtain their own housing.