The following suggestions will help you make a measurable difference in the lives of people who don’t have a home. Long thread from the introduction to.. #52waystohelphomelesspeople #graytemple
Not all of these suggestions are easy. Some are time consuming. Others require enlisting the efforts of other people who may or maynot pay attention on the first pass. #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple
Many of them will result in emotional upheaval, mostly yours. Nevertheless, they are within your grasp. People like you have done everyone of them. #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple
You don’t need special skills to do any of them. You don’t have to be smart, rich, religious, expert or especially brave. Yet, they will matter to people. #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple
The 52 suggestions fall n a deliberate sequence. They begin by getting you acquainted with some homeless people before any effort at helpfulness begins. #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple
Once you know some real people, the suggestions lead you through personal experiences in the field and some research projects. Though nobody is out of the shelters so far, you will already enriched some lives #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple
Equally important, you will have increased your eventual effectiveness as someone who knows what the situation is, what will help, and what won’t. #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple
Though it is assumed that you will pursue these more or less in order and on your own, a group of friends can use these suggestions in a collaborative effort #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple
Four outcomes will result from working with some of these suggestions. First you will accumulate a lot of information you did not process previously. #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple
Second, that in turn will affect your thinking about the problems of people without homes. #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple
Fourth, you will slide off the spectators bench and step into the action #52waystohelphomelesspeople #GrayTemple