While estimates on scale of homeless-ness
are invariably difficult to ascertain with precision, it
is generally mentioned in the relevant United Nations
documents that there are about 100 million homeless
persons in the world.
This estimates to about 1 out of every 64 people worldwide is homeless!
United Nations Report “Strategies to
Combat Homelessness (2000)” p. 26
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Spring Newsletter is available online, in this issue see how our "Meals Program" works!
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"S. O. S. SAVE OUTREACH SOON! "
Our Outreach Program is currently on life support! We need your help financially to keep this crucial program alive! This program works to provide links for men, women and children living each day "on the land" all across Central Ohio. Outreach provides direct referrals to medical care and housing options. Outreach also provides persons living "on the streets" with food, clothing, hygiene items, sleeping bags and other essential items to help them survive. Outreach also provides follow-up for those who have recently moved "off the streets" and into housing. Please help us keep this important program alive! Call 614-222-2885 for more information or send your donation to: The Open Shelter, Inc. 61 E. Mound St. Columbus OH 43215-5121
FOLLOW THE OPEN SHELTER ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER!
The Open Shelter is now on facebook and twitter! You can now follow the latest
info and see photos from The Open Shelter on both social network sites. On
our facebook page, there is current info and pictures from past "Ho Ho
Hope for the Holidays"; our annual event. Just search for us by typing
in The Open Shelter (Columbus, Ohio) on facebook. We are also on twitter at
www.twitter.com/theopenshelter.
Both are great ways to keep up to date on The Open Shelter.
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