CountryUp.org:
Tent Cities - Crisis
on
the Grassroots Level
In communities across America, the percentage of families in crisis
escalates in proportion to the announcement of layoffs and
unemployment. The
scale of this national economic emergency is best illustrated in the
recent
media coverage of tent cities across the United States.
The size and scope of challenges facing the household level across
America, has prompted a call for a disaster level contingency response
plan. To date states and municipalities have not stepped up to
the plate, in proportion to the challenges. As we continue to
urge emergency economic assistance for distressed families, in the form
for loan modifications, property tax reappraisals and utilities
assistance, it is time for churches to open their doors and Red
Cross Centers to open their emergency shelters.
In every community, distressed families must be reached, unmet needs
defined and emergency assistance provided to prevent a deepening crisis
and transition to the tent cities or emergency shelters.
Tour de America:
Run Across America Project for Hunger, Homelessness and Poverty
reaches 133 cities with youth and community talks, media interviews to
spotlight unmet
needs of frontline programs across the United States. Project prompts call for unmet
needs coordinators in every U.S. county in theAmerica's Action Plan for Community Service.
Today's Needs
For the Christian community, the message is that the suffering and
afflicted in our communities represent "Jesus" himself. To what
extent are we
working in our communities to identify those crying out in need?
How
well are we striving to understand the full scope of their dilemma, so
we
could think through a plan we would want for ourselves, if in their
shoes
? The answers to these questions provide us with heavens view of
our
effectiveness as a church:
"For whatsoever you have done unto one of the
least
of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." -- Matthew 25: 40
In the grand picture of divinity at work in all
facets of the interfaith community, love is the common theme that
unites and encompasses the true potential
through which the scope of suffering and affliction can be alleviated
and
peace achieved. -- The Ultimate Objective:Humanitarian
Resource Institute.
Grassroots Mobilization CountryUp.org: Arts Integration Into Education
The
Soundtrack
"Special
Forces Prayer" from the album compilation "Country Goes Global" by Country Music Association
artist Stephen Michael Apatow is now streaming on YouTube.
The words for the "Special Forces Prayer" were written in 1961 for
William Pelham "Bill" Yarborough, Written by SF Chaplain John Stevey,
the 7th SFG (ABN) Chaplain. Today, the theme "De oppresso
liber"
(Pentagon: 1st Special Forces: Latin:
Liberate
From Oppression) as the focus of those working in 192 member states of
the United Nations, who have joined Humanitarian Resource Institute in
the
mission of identification of the priority issues, dissection
of
peer reviewed facts and consensus building for strategic planning,
development and implementation.
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Stephen M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net
