Micro-Shelters for the Homeless

[petrus4]

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=26227623&nid=148

Utah man builds micro shelters for the homeless.

PLEASANT GROVE — Gary Pickering can enjoy sitting in the shade on his front porch on a hot summer day, but it's something he hasn't always been able to do. At one time in his life, after a divorce, he was homeless.

"I lived in my shop for about three years, so I was basically homeless."

Pickering became sympathetic to those he met, who really had nowhere to live.

"I had four homeless people living outside my shop. It was 1988 which was a bad winter but they lived in my van all through the winter."

20 years later in 2009, Pickering was driving through Provo. He saw a homeless man and started to wonder what he could do to help.

This is another beautiful story.  The video is from an initiative which happened in 2011, which managed to build 40 of these things in two days.

[astr0144]

Coincidentally I came across this the other day...

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/formerly-homeless-man-invents-portable-shelters-to-help-others-180959364.html

[Amaterasu]

You see, THIS is what Humanity is like - WHEN We can...AFFORD it.

We DO care.  We can harness the power of CARING rather than money.

[Elvis Hendrix]

Hey Amy, You know what really gets me is supermarket just out of date food. Its still perfectly fine too eat, yet it gets garbaged on a 24 hour a day basis.
It could so easily be distributed to the homeless.
Its sickening really.

Elvis.

[Amaterasu]

Hon...  Supermarkets ALONE throw out HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of TONS of food a MONTH - enough for ALL - distributing by PROFIT, NOT NEED.

Once money is no longer needed, yes.  Food will be distributed fresh, waste will be virtually eliminated, and We will find that We are now producing more food than We need.