Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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1999 GIFTS OF SERVICE TO THE WORLD
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Homeward Bound and Home Plate Community Ventures Homelessness is the largest public health issue in the United States. Homeward Bound of Marin serves homeless men, women, and children in six different programs in Marin County, California. We provide housing and support services that enable people to move home for good! Homeward Bound engages individuals and families in a dynamic, compassionate process of ending their homelessness by opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and independence. HomePlate Community Ventures, a component of Homeward Bound, are social enterprises designed to provide training and employment opportunities for homeless people and to bring another source of revenue to provide homeless services. Currently, Home Plate runs a catering business, "Grateful Table Catering," which offers high quality production of fine foods and ambience for the discerning public. Homeward Bound is also branching out into a mobile kitchen venture called "Rolling Scones" and developing an organic garden for sale at Farmers' Markets. Homeward Bound of Marin USA
Carpenter's Shop The Carpenter's Shop is a unique day care center involved in the rehabilitation of destitute street people in Cape Town who are jobless, homeless and considered by many to be a public nuisance. The objective of the Shop is to enable these needy people to re-establish themselves as useful members of society. Rehabilitation services offered at the Shop include practical skills and crafts training with the objective of future placement in commerce or industry, a day time off-street refuge for those who cannot work, and counseling by a professional social worker. Carpenter's Shop REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Project Return Project Return's mission is to reduce crime and violence by breaking the cycles of crime and violence in today's society. The program includes job-skills training and placement, life skills training, GED preparatory classes, computer literacy training, and an addictions program - all enhanced by a communitybuilding environment. Project Return offers a practical, realistic, forward-thinking approach that stresses the rebuilding of lives and the reclaiming of human resources Tulane University, Medical Center USA
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Developing an AIDS Helpline Life Line began 35 years ago as a Crisis helpline in a Methodist Church in Sydney, Australia. In 1991 the toll free AIDS Helpline was developed as a Government/ NGO initiative to meet the needs of the community for information and counseling. Today Life Line in South Africa fields 20,000 calls a month in 6 languages. Life Line Southern Africa REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Development of Self-Sustaining HIVIAIDS Prevention Ministries AIDS Pastoral Care Network, in collaboration with local clergy and the Red Cross, organizes prevention education presentations on HIV/AIDS. Speakers educate congregations and help identify congregants to participate in Red Cross HIV Peer Education training. Once trained, volunteers work with clergy and APCN staff to create strategies for the development of HIV prevention ministries in their communities. AIDS Pastoral Care Network USA
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Providing Lunchtime Meals Parents and children of Am Yisrael's Religious School make bag lunches (approximately 150) once every month and deliver them to the House of Daniel Shelter in Chicago. Congregants also donate clothing and other items to the shelter. Am Yisrael Conservative Congregation
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