INTERNATIONAL HOMELESS

National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week PowerPoint Presentation 

This PowerPoint presentation provides an excellent introduction to the topic of homelessness. 

http://tinyurl.com/bb66t 

Homeless: Six Cities, Six Stories, Six Lives

Watch these online videos that cross time zones so you can experience one homeless day in six different international locations, in six different time zones, around the world. Remember that they could be you or us.

http://www.abc.net.au/homeless/ 

          India's City of Widows

This article explores the world of shunned widows in the Indian city of Vrindavan. Take a look at the moving photo essay that accompanies this article. Surprisingly, among these heart-wrenching stories  runs a string of hope among these women. 

http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=5169 

HOMELESSNESS IN NORTH AMERICA

All the Lonely People 

Lyrics to the Beatles song "Eleanor Rigby"  

http://www.thebeatlesongs.com/eleanor_rigby.htm 

Fact Sheet on Homelessness

http://www.endhomelessness.org/pub/toolkit/facts.pdf 

Who is Homeless?

http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeprevention/pihomelesswhois.htm 

How You Can Help End Homelessness  

Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless, 2001.  

http://www.housingforthehomeless.org/givehelp.htm 

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/you.pdf  

America's Homeless Children  

An educational reader for middle school students.

http://www.411kids.org/pub/Middle.pdf 

http://www.411kids.org/pub/Usmid.pdf 

A New Canadian Pastime: Counting Homeless People

How many homeless people are there? In Toronto? In Canada? Who knows? No one knows. For some, it seems, trying to count them is more important than taking action.

http://action.web.ca/home/housing/resources.shtml?x=66865 

Panhandling: A Little Understanding

I decided to write this article after being homeless myself for a year and a half, because I learned a few things you cannot learn without being homeless - or at least very close to homelessness and the lives of the people who live it.

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/panhandle.html 

Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness

The National Alliance to End Homelessness has developed a groundbreaking and ambitious campaign to engage all sectors of society in a revitalized effort to confront and overcome homelessness in America. The time has come for the nation to re-commit to ending homelessness rather than just managing it.

http://www.endhomelessness.org/pub/tenyear/ 

Reports and Statistics from "Homes for the Homeless" web site 

http://www.homesforthehomeless.com/index.asp?CID=3&PID=18 

Dark Days

An unromanticized and fascinating glimpse of the lives of a community of homeless people surviving in a train tunnel in Manhattan.

http://tinyurl.com/8n98f 

http://www.indiewire.com/people/int_Singer_Marc_000830.html 

Help the Homeless

Kids can help the homeless. Find out how.

http://www.hud.gov/kids/hthsplsh.html

54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless

http://www.tinman.org/sue/articles/54WaysYouCanHelpTheHomeless.html