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]]>For some 15 years, David Brown had made a home in Washington Circle, living in a tent with a handful of others in an encampment. On Friday, that home was destroyed — his tent, clothing and other possessions were tossed into a dumpster by police officers carrying out President Trump’s crackdown on some of the city’s most powerless residents.
Left with a fraction of his things, Mr. Brown and his 6-month-old puppy, Molly, moved a block away and slept outside the Foggy Bottom subway station. Sitting in a wheelchair outside the station on Saturday, he was still baffled at what was happening. “Why is he doing this, for no reason?” he asked of Mr. Trump.
Read full article on The New York Times.
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]]>From May 2017 to April of this year, street teams from Bethesda Cares made contact with 89 homeless people in Silver Spring.
At that period’s end, 26 of those people had been put into permanent housing. The county recently ended veteran homelessness and is now trying to end chronic homelessness.
Bethesda cares executive director John Mendez says that the real battle to save lives actually takes place in the chambers of the county council as each years budget is crafted.
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]]>The man was still yards away when she saw it — a white face mask, glowing in the predawn light.
Gabriel Santos, a homeless-outreach worker, had woken up with cold symptoms. Not wanting to expose his clients to illness, he reached for the mask. It would be better this way, he thought. But now, as he approached the woman sheltering outside a Maryland building, its other effects became clear.
“Don’t come over here with no mask on,” shouted Debra, a chronically homeless woman who sat bundled in a winter coat, a black-and-white blanket pulled over her lap. “I said don’t you come over here!”
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]]>A rising junior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, 16-year-old Henry Sowells is giving back to his community by using his woodworking hobby to raise funds to donate to charity to help feed people who struggle with hunger.
See the video on Fox 5 Washington D.C.
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