Athens Faces of Homelessness Speakers' Bureau

09/19/2020

Check yourself, and see if you're guilty of this and if so, change how you're thinking.

Read an extract from journalist Maeve McClenaghan's book 'No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless', published today.

11/17/2019

Excellent!

Homelessness is an issue that has always been prominent in our world. Many people don't have a home because of an illness or because they lost their job.

01/30/2019

Now I can show people how I'm not wrong when I use it.

01/30/2019

WOW!

09/27/2012

We need to do some presentations asap. If you have a group, club, Sunday school class or any body of people that you feel could benefit from hearing what homelessness is really about and what some of the causes are, then please message me.

04/26/2012

If you would like to have us do a presentation for your group, just shoot me a message here and I'll get back to you.

Please leave your email address and phone # so I can email you from the FoH account I have set up.

Thanks!

02/10/2012

The Metro-Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless is still facing serious peril under it's attack from the City of Atlanta. http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/interspire/news/2012/02/05/task-force-for-homeless-eviction-granted-appeal-expected.html

11/22/2011

We have had some wonderful presentations at Athens Technical College, UGA and Clarke Middle School in the past week.

The questions were indicative of people really being open to what is happening to the homeless and some have shared that they were mere days away from becoming homeless themselves.

Thank you all who had us out and we look forward to hearing form you with more opportunities to do presentation at you school, church or civic group.

01/05/2011

A growing population of college students is facing hunger and homelessness as tuitions rise and the economy is slow to recover. UCLA has created an Economic Crisis Response Team to identify financially strapped students and help keep them in school.

12/20/2010

MT. VERNON, N.Y -- When Ray Williams steps into the old gym at Mt. Vernon High School, or walks into the Dole Recreation Center a couple of blocks away, or opens the door down the street for lunch at King's Pizzeria, or...

12/09/2010

Article about Nathaniel Ayers, whose life is the subject of the film "The Soloist," meeting President Obama.

In those early days after we met 5 1/2 years ago, when Nathaniel Ayers slept on the streets of skid row, he was a dreamer. He'd play a two-string violin at the feet of the Beethoven statue and

12/09/2010

Congrats to Athens Academy Interact! Residents at Athens Area Homeless Shelter appreciate their service!

Athens Academy's Interact Club recently received Rotary International's 2009-10 Presidential Citation for