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During the Great Bengal famine of 1770, she helped the poor by hiring eight vaidyas to help the people at her own expense. [ 2 ] In Baranagar, Murshidabad , from 1753 to 1760, she commissioned the building of 108 terracotta Shiva temples, with the aim of turning the place into a second Varanasi.
Homelessness is in part a direct result of families migrating from rural to urban cities and urbanization. [12] Migration to urban areas can occur for a variety of reasons ranging from loss of land, need for sustainable employment, lack of clean water and other resources, and in some cases like the Bargi Dam Project, loss of all property and complete displacement. [13]
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, living in boarding houses with no security of tenure, [1] and people who leave their homes because of civil conflict and are refugees within their country.
Discrimination against homeless people is categorized as the act of treating people who lack housing in a prejudiced or negative manner because they are homeless. Other factors can compound discrimination against homeless people including discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, age, mental illness, and other considerations.
An early Hobo News front page. Although the modern street newspaper began with the 1989 publication of Street News in New York City, [1] [2] and the Street Sheet in San Francisco, 1989, newspapers sold by the poor and homeless to generate income and to bring attention to social problems date back to the late 19th century; journalism scholar Norma Fay Green has cited The War Cry, created by the ...
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are giving back this holiday season.. The former couple spent Thanksgiving volunteering and serving free meals to the homeless community in Los Angeles as they ...
A 2010 article and video entitled, "SF library offers Social Services to Homeless," [206] speaks about the San Francisco library having a full-time social worker at the library to reduce and help homeless patrons. It mentions that Leah Esguerra, who is a psychiatric social worker, has a usual routine making her rounds to different homeless ...
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