61 And NO LONGER Homeless
I am learning another side of Boston and it isn't pretty
Kavanaugh's knew he could have used the cash, but he also knows what it is like to go without.
"It could have been somebody's rent money or something, you know. They could use it. It could set you back," said Kavanaugh.
At Harvard, the Winthrop Street homeless shelter is one of 86 service and social change programs associated with the Phillips Brooks House Association, which is a student-run nonprofit. Students can work with deaf children, tutor prison inmates, bring pets to nursing homes, and prepare Chinese students to become US citizens, among other opportunities.
The Harvard Square shelter provides shelter, food, and resource counseling for a minimum of 24 guests each night, as well as dinner plates for those who come to the door. The shelter also has a “street team’’ of students who go out each night to bring food and conversation to homeless people.
A Worcester shelter, with a long history of taking in some of the cities’ most desperate and troubled homeless people, is closing its doors after supper Monday night.
A concerted effort by the city and several social service agencies has made the People in Peril shelter, commonly known as PIP, obsolete.
