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  • do not take shelter for granted

    I was going to go to bed, but I just keep thinking about this guy I saw tonight, wrapped up in a blanket outside of the CVS in Dupont Circle. It is literally freezing outside. Even with my long coat, hat, scarf, and gl…

  • 2006 help the homeless walkathon: 4 thoughts 1. Thanks to everyone who supported the Gib House Team in the 2006 Fannie Mae Help the Homeless Walkathon! We managed to raise about $1,500 for N Street Village. 2. …

  • pop quiz How sensitive are you to the homeless? A quiz brought to you by the Oct/Nov issue of Street Sense, a DC newspaper written by the local homeless and their advocates. 1. You are going to lunch solo at Subway …

  • rich young ruler, by derek webb Poverty is so hard to see when it's only on your TV and twenty miles across town where we're all living so good we moved out of Jesus' neighborhood where he's hungry and not feeli…

  • scammed!/how to respond to poverty I went to the Bank of America near the NPR building this morning to deposit my paycheck. As I turned to leave the ATM, a woman started approaching me cautiously. "Ma'am, ma'am? Don'…

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