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.AmeriCorps has 75,000 Americans serving their communities in 1- or 2-year commitments, using their skills and ideals to aid others.

…As an AmeriCorps member, you can address community needs in education, the environment, public safety, social services, homeland security, and other areas.

We also serve in national nonprofit organizations like Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, Teach for America, and hundreds of smaller community organizations, secular and faith-based.

Whether your service makes a community safer, gives a child a second chance, alleviates poverty, or helps to protect our environment, you have the ability to find solutions and make a difference.  Care to join AmeriCorps? . list of Florida programs

I visited campsites of homeless persons a couple of miles from Panama city Rescue Mission. I made a few photos with my camera phone, without photographing the denizens (except my escort).

makeshift gate to the woods »→

“A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by prayers.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A hungry man is not a free man. – Adlai Stevenson

I hadn’t had a job since February 2008. I could arise most days whenever I desired. I had no boss, no time cards to stamp or punch, no work schedule, no commute… Now I have worked two weeks in Panama City Rescue Mission as a ‘resource connector,’ helping homeless persons, including just-released prisoners, who seek employment, shelter, state vocation rehabilitation, Social Security benefits, Medicaid, food stamps (not stamps anymore), veteran medical-care enrollment, veteran disability compensation, etcetera.

Lord, hear our prayers for women and men, boys and girls who are homeless, for those sleeping under bridges, on benches, in alleys, in bus stations and under trees.

Lord, inspire us to help our brethren who suffer nights of fitful sleep in places unsecure, who wander in the day, looking for work and hoping for housing.

Lord, help us to mend families that are split because rent could not be paid on time and relatives could not take in everyone. »→

The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. - Norman Borlaug

…….At Free Rice.com, I reached level 50 in English vocabulary, the default quiz, before losing interest. I encourage you to visit FreeRice.com and do one of the quizzes to donate rice to UN’s World Food Program. Quizzes for adults and kids are:

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