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'N' Dey Say

The casting includes Gabriel Casseus (from Lockdown) as the patron of a homeless and Faune A. Chambers (from White Chicks) as the mourning widow and the St. Lunatics as cameos.

1970 Gediz earthquake

The event killed 1,086 people and left 1,260 people wounded and many thousands homeless in Gediz.

3rd Marine Logistics Group

This was followed up with a deployment to Pakistan to aid in the relief efforts after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake that shook the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on 8 October 2005, leaving almost 100,000 dead and nearly 3 million Pakistanis homeless.

Alvin Wiederspahn

He is active on the board of the Homeless Shelter and is an elder of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Cheyenne.

Anchor Gaslamp

These Sundays have ranged in activities from homeless barbecues to delivering truckloads of donated goods to orphanages and women's recovery homes in Baja California.

Anti-homelessness

Anti-homelessness legislation, which includes both legislation intended to support and rehouse the homeless and legislation that criminalizes the homeless

Bombing of the Bezuidenhout

At the time, the neighbourhood was more densely populated than usual with evacuees from The Hague and Wassenaar; tens of thousands were left homeless and had to be quartered in the Eastern and Central Netherlands.

Community for Creative Non-Violence

CCNV draws attention to hunger by sponsoring an annual Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless.

Confessions of a Superhero

McQueen moved to Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots and was homeless for four years before becoming the Hulk, and achieves the most success of any of the subjects in the film, winning a small role in Justin Lin's Finishing the Game.

Deborah VanAmerongen

Additionally, VanAmerongen served as chair of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the NYS Housing Finance Agency; the State of New York Mortgage Agency; the Homeless Housing Assistance Corporation, the Harlem Community Development Corporation and the New York State Affordable Housing Corporation

Dimitri Mobengo Mugianis

Dimitri is currently N'ganga-in-residence for drug users at New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE), a New York needle exchange working with homeless, formerly incarcerated, and HIV-positive people in East Harlem and The Bronx.

Frank Ivancie

Ivancie opposed the development of the popular Pioneer Courthouse Square, on the grounds that the square would become a gathering place for transients.

Fusakichi Omori

In fall 1923 Omori attended the Second Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Australia, where he and Edward Pigot, the director of the observatory at Riverview College in Sydney, Australia observed a seismograph recording the major great Kantō earthquake which destroyed Yokohama and Tokyo on 1 September 1923, killing about 140,000 and leaving 1.9 million people homeless.

Gordon H. Mansfield

In attendance were dignitaries such as Massachusetts Congressman John Olver, CEO of Soldier On Jack Downing and Director of Homeless Programs for the Veterans Administration Peter Dougherty, who, with Mansfield’s wife Linda, unveiled a large bronze bas relief of Mansfield by sculptor Andrew DeVries that marks the entrance to the community.

Horace McKenna

McKenna founded So Others Might Eat, a soup kitchen, clinic and employment center; Martha's Table, a soup kitchen and child education center; and House of Ruth, a center for homeless women.

Jerry Speyer

She is chairwoman of Lincoln Center's redevelopment and is on the executive committee of the International Rescue Committee, a refugee relief and resettlement organization; is chairman emerita of Women in Need, which helps homeless women and children in New York City; is a vice president of the Brearley School, and a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation.

Joan Bartlett

She opened a residential home for the elderly homeless, having been inspired by hearing Violet Markham speak at Caxton Hall about the plight of many elderly people who had been bombed out during The Blitz.

Joyce Brown

Joyce Patricia Brown (born 1947), whose case against New York City made legal precedent against involuntary psychiatric commitment of the homeless

Juan-Carlos Cruz

On Thursday, May 13, 2010, he was arrested at Cheviot Hills Park in Los Angeles, for having allegedly solicited three homeless persons at the Third Street Promenade to murder his wife, Jennifer Campbell.

Kaitlyn Dever

Dever's first notable acting role was in the American Girl film An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009) as Gwen Thompson, a bullied homeless girl.

Karen Olson

Olson learned that there were hundreds of homeless people, including families, in her home community of Union County, New Jersey.

Ken MacAfee

Additionally, MacAfee became active in United Way, Health Volunteers Overseas, Physicians Fighting Cancer, Homes for Homeless, AIDS Awareness Center, and Home for Wayward Children.

Kirsty Soames

She also causes problems by costing Tommy a security job and persuading Julie Carp (Katy Cavanagh) and Brian Packham (Peter Gunn) to buy Jason Grimshaw's (Ryan Thomas) flat, making Tina and Tommy homeless.

Långa raden

Poor and homeless people of Stockholm emerged in great numbers following the fatal Battle of Poltava 1709, but were considerably decimated by the Black Death, which hit the city the following year.

LolliLove

The film satirizes a hip, misguided Southern California couple who decide to make a difference in the lives of the homeless by giving them lollipops with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.

Luis Palau

Palau got in touch with fellow evangelicals, and cooperated with Portland Commissioner Erik Sten, Potter, Beaverton Mayor Rob Drake, and Gresham Mayor Shane Bemis in 2008 in planning his August 22–23 festival, which will focus on volunteerism in support of the homeless.

Marek Kotański

Marek Kotański, (March 11, 1942 - August 19, 2002) was a Polish charity worker and campaigner on behalf of disadvantaged people, including the homeless and those with HIV.

Kotański was a psychologist and a psychotherapist - he organized many projects to fight against social problems and helped alcoholics, drug addicts, people with HIV, ex-prisoners and homeless people.

Mary Rose McGeady

Mary Rose McGeady (June 28, 1928, Hazleton, Pennsylvania - September 13, 2012, Albany, New York) was an American Roman Catholic nun who was widely acknowledged for her work with homeless youth in the United States.

Matthew Flinders' Cat

It records the relationship between a homeless former lawyer and alcoholic, and a young skateboard riding boy with a troubled background, who slowly bond over tales of Matthew Flinders and "Trim", a cat who travelled with him on his voyage to explore Australia.

Monsieur Batignole

The film showed that on one side there were people who wanted to enjoy and own whatever property belonging to the Jews was confiscated by the German Army and on the other was Edmond Batignole who had the feeling of humanity in himself and wanted to help the homeless Jewish boy.

Napięcie Theatre

The Napięcie Theatre work mainly with their own texts (“Salon Lenistwa”/”Showroom of Indolence” or “Lewa Strona, Prawa Strona”/”Left Side, Right Side”) but they also work with other author’s pieces (“Przewodnik dla bezdomnych”/”A Short Guide for Homeless People” is based on Arthur Rimbaud's and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's works; their other plays are inspired by Plato and Andrzej Sosnowski).

National Runaway Switchboard

NRS also maintains a Web site, www.1800RUNAWAY.org, which was significantly revamped in 2006 and which presents a wide range of information both on NRS and on runaway and homeless youth in general, including guidance for what families should do if a child is missing.

New York City Department of Homeless Services Police

The New York City Department of Homeless Services Police currently utilizes marked and unmarked vehicles in its fleet including Ford Fusions, Ford Escapes, Ford E-350 vans, Ford Explorers, and Jeep Cherokees.

Nicholas Hondrogen

The film includes a diverse cross section of people from talk show host Larry King, actor Vincent Gallo, composer Philip Glass to Vietnam veterans, homemakers and the homeless.

Perivaldo Dantas

In the late 80s, after living three years in South Korea, he relocated to Portugal in hopes of finding a new club, but eventual poor choices and several misfortunes ended up with him as an homeless person having to resort to street vending in Lisbon.

Peter Joseph Bis

Peter Joseph Bis (c. 1951 - August 16, 2012) was a homeless man in Washington, D.C., known by the Capitol Hill community for his social personality and keen, savant-like memory.

Popcorn Press

Some American poets who Popcorn Press has recently published are: J. Robert King (Humors), Lester W. Smith (Would You Dance? ), Shelly L. Hall (Tonguebones), and Patrick T. Randolph (Father's Philosophy), (Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless).

Pope Adrian VI

In an episode of the American TV show Law & Order entitled Divorce, a homeless man believes he is Pope Adrian VI.

Punitaqui

The quake left 8 people dead, 360 injured and 59,913 homeless, concentrating most of those in the provinces of Elqui and Limarí.

Resurrection Day

"Two-Tone" – homeless man in Carl's neighborhood; ex-Major of the 82nd Airborne Division and a veteran of the U.S. Army Airborne invasion of Cuba and victim of Soviet tactical nuclear strike on the invading U.S. forces.

Rupert Boneham

He also made a cameo appearance as a homeless man in "The Radford Reshuffle", the sixth season premiere of the show Yes, Dear.

St Giles Trust

In the late 1990s, it embarked on providing a housing casework service in HMP Wandsworth to help the large number of men leaving this prison only to become homeless.

Street News

Former homeless man and crack addict Lee Stringer was first vendor and then editor and columnist for Street News.

Street people

Examples of well-known street people are José María López Lledín who lived a public life on the streets of Havana during the 1950s, Mr. Butch of Boston, Leslie Cochran of Austin, Juan of Seattle, or Louis Thomas Hardin ("Moondog") who was a street musician, inventor, and later homeless person in the 1940s through to 1970s in New York City.

Sylvia Friedman

She served on Community Board 6 in Manhattan, at various times chairing the Housing Committee, the Homeless Committee and the Parks, Recreation and Landmarks Committee.

Tan Tock Seng Hospital

About 100 sick and destitute people had been housed in an attap shed at the foot of Pearl's Hill when a fierce storm destroyed the shed, leaving them homeless.

The Very Best of Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain

The album contains many well-known songs by the group, spanning songs mainly from the late 1980s to newly recorded versions (and a few 1970s tracks), such as "Homeless" (composed by Mambazo leader Joseph Shabalala and Paul Simon), "Nomathemba", and many more.

Trapper John, M.D.

Other characters included young nurse Gloria "Ripples" Brancusi (Christopher Norris) who later adopted a sickly, homeless girl, Andrea; Stanley Riverside II (Charles Siebert), a pompous, but nonetheless capable doctor (whose father was the head of the hospital board of directors) who later married a dentist named E.J. (Marcia Rodd); and Justin "Jackpot" Jackson (Brian Stokes Mitchell), a young doctor always interested in wagers.

When I Came Home

When I Came Home is a 2006 documentary directed by Dan Lohaus about homeless veterans in the United States - from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the Iraq War.


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