"Today, 200 million children around the world are going to sleep in the streets...

[OBenario4]

— ...none of them are Cuban."



Meanwhile...

USA


Canada


Colombia


Brazil


France


England


Japan


India




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Thank you, Che.

[malaise]

1. Today is World Homeless People Day

and I've seen very little on the subject.

Thanks for your post

[OBenario4]

2. Yes, it is.

And yesterday was Che Guevara's anniversary of death. I thought both deserved mention.

You're welcome.

[malaise]

3. I was going to add that but didn't want to add that

although I got your point.
There are no homeless people in Cuba but we hear they don't have KFC

[OBenario4]

4. I know, right?

They also don't have smartphones, but they don't need to sell their kidneys to treat cancer.

It's all a question of priorities.

[Judi Lynn]

5. It's so easy for greedy people to dismiss poverty. It's just fine with them.

In societies which work for the interests of the people, all efforts are made to bring everyone along. Real Christians could say it's the "Christian" thing to do.

CHILD HOMELESSNESS IN U.S. REACHES HISTORIC HIGH, REPORT SAYS
BY STAV ZIV ON 11/17/14 AT 8:01 PM

One out of every 30 children in the U.S. experienced homelessness last year. That makes nearly 2.5 million children who, in 2013, lived in shelters, on the streets, in cars, on campgrounds or doubled up with other families in tight quarters, often moving from one temporary solution to another, according to “America’s Youngest Outcasts,” a report published Monday by the the National Center on Family Homelessness at the American Institutes for Research.

With an increase of 8 percent in just one year between 2012 and 2013, the number of homeless children in this country has reached a historic high, the report says.

“As a nation of wealth and opportunity [one in 30 children] is not something we should tolerate,” Carmela DeCandia, director of the National Center on Family Homelessness, tells Newsweek. “We haven’t been paying attention,” she says, and “we need to before the goal becomes out of reach.”

In 2010, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness presented a plan called Opening Doors, which stated as goals ending chronic and veteran homelessness by 2015, and getting rid of of children, family and youth homelessness by 2020. The report released Monday says that while the government has taken steps to tackle the first half of its goal and successfully reduced the number of chronically homeless individuals and homeless veterans, “children and families have not received the same attention—and their numbers are growing.”

More:
http://www.newsweek.com/child-homelessness-us-reaches-historic-high-report-says-285052

Thank you, OBenario4.