Love in Action
 

Report from San Francisco, USA

 

(Originally in English)

Rents are extremely expensive in San Francisco, where affordable housing is limited. As a result, the city has one of the highest homeless rates in the United States. In an effort to make the lives of the less fortunate brighter during the recent holiday season, fellow initiates from the San Francisco Center pooled their time, money, and resources to conduct a homeless relief project.

The activity was focused on a specific subset of the city's transient population -- those who are forced to sleep on the streets due to the shortage of homeless shelters.

Fellow initiates purchased enough materials to keep the homeless warm, and on the nights of December 2 and 16, scoured the city from 11:00 PM to 3:00 AM in search of homeless people. Each one received a brand new sleeping bag, a warm sweater, gloves, socks, a warm box of food, and a copy of Master's News magazine to read. It felt good to see expressions of surprise, happiness, and joy on the faces of our less fortunate brothers and sisters as they received their gifts.

Being used to times of joy, merriment, and prosperity, it is very easy for us to forget how fortunate we really are. We are so accustomed to having the simple necessities of life that we often take them for granted. Helping our needy brothers and sisters reminds us that there is much to be grateful for.


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