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Volume X, Issue 8
HOMELESS VOICE
We Still Need Your Help!!!
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i to all you who have supported the Homeless Voice over the years! The time has once again come for us to expand to fit the needs of the economy as well as to handle the current budget problems facing our agency over the lack of funds. It seems the economy is also hurting some of our supporters and we pray that you make it as well in these trying times. There is a building not too far away that we need so badly for our handicapped people in wheel chairs and ones who are in their retirement years and can’t make it on their SS checks. They can’t go upstairs at the shelter unless they can make it down the fire escape. We figure we sell about 100,000 papers a month. If we could get each donator to send in their special ten dollar check this month we can buy the building next door. I know times are tough but try to raise the ten or get as many people as you can to send in their ten dollar donation. You can make a little copy of this request and hand it around at work. Of course if someone can’t afford to send in their $10.00 donation they can send whatever. We will also take your prayers so we make our current budget. Let me tell you it is tough but we are holding on and readjusting our budgets like any good business will do in these trying times. We are crushing our food cans so we have less of a dumpster expense and it is working. We are saving some big bucks on garbage as well as recycling our alu-
minum soda cans therefore saving space in our dumpster and making some cash that would normally go down the drain. Also don’t forget next month we will be opening up the newest COSAC Halfway House in the community and boy will it look nice. It will have two way video communications so we can monitor the property from our desk top as well as talking back to the clients in case of an emergency. It is a complete sober house and if someone makes a mistake and drinks they have to move out and come back to the main property where there is plenty of staff to see what is happening 24 hours a day as well as getting them the help they need with our long list of therapists and in house groups and meetings. So if you can afford to help in these trying times please send in your check for
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You can set up payroll deduction through your employer to support the COSAC Foundation’s Homeless Voice • Your company might even match your donation • See your human resource or department manager
the next property to help the homethem three meals a day. Send in less in our community. This will those checks to: COSAC Homeless Assistance Center only be for about 25 people with P.O. Box 292-577 special needs with more medical Davie Florida 33329 coverage. We will use one for hospice as well around the clock. This will not be for people who HELP PAY OFF OUR MORTGAGE are right from the streets but We need just who can’t afford to live on their 17,080 people to send in a check for $20.00, Or checks. We will provide food by having our kitchen bring 6,832 people to send in a check for $50.00, Or 3,416 people to send in a check for $100.00, Or 342 people to send in a check for $1,000, Or Just one wonderful person or business to send a check for the entire $341,600; We will name the shelter after you or whomever you choose
Homeless Hero Returns Lost Loot VICTORVILLE -- A homeless man is being called a hero for doing the right thing, even though it wasn't easy. The man, identified only as "Chris", found a purse containing nearly $1,000. Although he was desperately trying to save money to move into an apartment and get off the streets, he decided to track down the owner and give it back. Turns out the money belonged to a mother of three, down on her luck, who lost her purse. "I can't say I was perfect because for a tenth of a second, I thought about taking it," "Chris" told the local newspaper. But "it wasn't my money," he added. The mother who lost the money says she offered him a $50 reward, but he turned her down. "I'm going to be able to pay the rent because of his honesty," Nancy Daniels says. Daniels, of Rancho Cucamonga, had cashed a check from her parents and forgot her purse on the roof of her car Tuesday in a Target parking lot.
As she settled her children inside and drove off, the purse fell off. It was found by Chris, who was living in the nearby High Desert Homeless Services shelter. He found Daniels' cell phone and began dialing numbers. He got a friend, who called Daniels. "Some guy has found your purse, he's a street away, and trying to find you," the friend said. "Sure enough, there he is, standing there with my purse," Daniels said. "She had three kids in the back of the car, and two of them were crying," Chris said. "She counted the money and said, 'It's all here,' and I said, 'Yes, ma'am."' Chris has become a celebrity at the shelter - which he finds puzzling. "I just did what I thought was right," he said. "She had three kids. She needs the money. I know I'm homeless, but she has three kids. ... It seemed too important." Information from: Daily Press, http:// www.vvdailypress.com
Remember the donation is tax deductible!! Please send your checks to:
The COSAC Building Fund P.O. Box 292-577 Davie, Florida 33329 We do thank you
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