Shelters

Over 3.5 million people become homeless every year, and the government doesn’t help out as much as everyone thinks they do. A lot of people say they help the homeless but in reality, most of them treat the homeless like scum, they can't even spare 25 cents.If people help out even one homeless person it will make a huge change in the society. The main causes of homelessness is poverty and unemployment, but some people think differently. Help is what the homeless need, it doesn’t take much to…

Assignment List C4 – Youth Homelessness in Canada Homeless youths are teens that have no place to live. They live on the streets instead wandering around for food and money and in today’s society, shelter is considered to be a basic human right. Even today a very basic home can be unaffordable for people who don’t make enough money like elders and disabled people who are on a fixed pension or young people who lack the required education or experience to gain the desired income. This is…

of the road doesn’t have a home. This is something no one wants to see or do, which is why animal shelters and humane societies are so important to this country. However, the same shelters and humane societies are not funded properly to be more efficient. Solutions are needed to bring in more funds for the organizations. Fundraisers and donations are obvious ways to raising money for animal shelters and humane societies; linking schools and prisons, support programs, and promoting spaying and…

sleeping or doing before arriving to the shelter, it must be taken into consideration that not everyone there is healthy. It is not because they are unhygienic but because they have been living in the streets where those resources are not readily available to them at all. Adding to that fact there are other people and sharing the same rooms, restroom etcetera creates diseases that can be transmitted if the shelter is not kept up to a tidy standard. Shelters do try to enforce cleanliness but…

In modern America, there are many issues facing the country like ISIS and the possible threat of North Korea. No issue hits as hard, however, as the problem of homelessness. Meanwhile, all the way back in the thirteenth century, the evolution of agriculture has spawned a new class of medieval peasants, known as serfs; farmers bound to the land of their lords. Many people think that thanks to the multitude of programs to help them, that homeless live somewhat ok lives, the only difference being…

defined as a “conditions that undermines the wellbeing of some or all members of a society and are usually a matter of public controversy”. According to the McKinney Act “Homelessness is a person without permanent housing who may live in the streets, shelter, or any unstable situations” (Schift, 2003). Homelessness impacts the whole society, not just the afflicted community, because resources are extracted from the entire society to manage the homelessness population. The publics tax money is…

“Animal Shelters and Animal Welfare: Raising the Bar.” By Patricia Turner (Professor in animal services); Jim Berry (Veterinarian); and Shelagh MacDonald (Federation of Humane Societies) discusses the ongoing crisis of animal overpopulation of shelters effecting Animal Welfare. Turner, Berry, and Macdonald make valid arguments with facts and research to back them up throughout the article. The authors state there are eight million animals entered into shelters yearly in the United States, out of…

January of 2015, there were over half a million people experiencing homelessness in the United States. Not every homeless person has the choice of finding a place to live for shelter, and many children and adults suffer from homelessness every day. There are many shelters for single adults with children but not many shelters to house single adults. There are various reasons for homelessness in Pennsylvania low income, addictions, non-affordable housing, poor health, no education, and…

I believe homelessness exists when an individual has no home and lives on the street. Although numerous homeless people exist, I believe we, as a country, can prevent homelessness throughout the United States. However, weather we provide homeless shelters or soup kitchens, there is something we can fix to prevent this terrible way people live. What the United States can ensure to assist…

My personal experience with community service is very limited. Through my church group and my school we would serve meals at the homeless shelter various times during the year. We would be at the shelter for increments of five hours at a time. Two hours were allotted to prepare parts of the meal, another two were used for serving food, and the last hour was used for cleaning up the kitchen and dining area. The only other community service I have done was through my high school Science Club; we…