DownEast magazine just shared a story with its Facebook fans — “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” It is about a 4-year-old program that gives homeless people stable shelter and THEN other programs to deal with some of the reasons they are homeless in the first place. Programs for the homeless many times simply give a person or family a cot and a meal and then send them on their way the next morning; this program seems to give homeless people much more — a chance and hope.
About mid-way down the story it tells how this program costs less money than if the people were allowed to remain homeless. Some of the stories told are pretty touching.
Not sure what the photo is all about, though.
My name is Keith Michaud and this is “Letters From Away,” a blog written by a Mainer living outside the comfortable and sane confines of New England. The blog is intended for Mainers, whether they live in the Pine Tree State or beyond, and for anyone who has loved ’em, been baffled by ’em or both. Ayuh, I am “from away.” Worse still, I live on the Left Coast – in California. Enjoy! Or not. Your choice.
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