Community Service

When you watch the news or just see people sitting outside of businesses that are homeless you can't but feel sorry for them. In the world today as many as 3.5 million people experience homelessness in a given year (1% of the entire U.S. population or 10% of its poor), and about 842,000 people in any given week. How can people become homeless? Here are several different examples: personal problems, lack of education, domestic violence, alcoholism, drug addiction, mental illness, poor work habits, and lack of social skills. Homeless people are made up of more women than men. Women have experienced childhood sexual abuse and/or foster care and adult partner abuse. More than 50% of all homeless women and children become homeless as a direct result of fleeing domestic violence. The good thing is if you ever become homeless there are a few programs that will help you until you get back on your feet. One of the programs would be shelters. Shelters are a place where you can live while you don't have a house. A program that will help homeless people is food pantries. Some ways that I could help out with homelessness would be to help out in the pantries or give my clothes and other belongs to shelters and Salvation Army stores. A very help program for homeless people is Housing Solutions for Homeless Services Providers.