Homeless in Los Angeles Saturday, December 29, 2007
Posted by Roland in Buzz, California, Friends, Southern California, Thinking About.Tags: "Habitat for Humanity", "Homeless", California
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I’m watching a program on homeless children in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Ventura and Orange County schools. There are 25,000 homeless children enrolled in public schools in these counties.
The program is called “Forgotten Neighbors” and is being aired on the local NBC network. The show featured a blogger who lives in a loft above Los Angeles’ Skid Row.
This fits in well with the story I want to tell about my afternoon.
(My friend Andrew.)
I was invited to visit a Habitat for Humanity build site in Fullerton by my friend Andrew W., a St. Margaret’s graduate and recent Stanford alum who is spending the year as an AmeriCorps volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.
I saw a lot. It was great seeing the dozens of volunteers at the site. And, of course, the two houses that will be completed before the New Year. The neighborhood I visited in Fullerton is transitional. I hope that new housing will go up through the efforts of Habitat and the City of Fullerton.
I’ve posted photos that I took of the Habitat site and the neighborhood.
Here are a few:
I took these photos of a woman going through the alley dumpsters.
