As well as Missing Persons Week, yesterday's post, it is also Homeless Healthcare and Homeless Week. Despite the rain bucketing down on Monday the team in the Homeless Health Care Soup Kitchen (click to see excellent shot of the whole crew) serving delicious hot gourmet soup and bread rolls were kept busy between 11 and 2 with a constant flow of hungry lunchtime customers. All funds raised going to Homeless Healthcare. On Monday it was Spiced Moroccan Sweet Potato soup. Homelessness is as present in Perth as it is everywhere, I don't understand why this is so when there are many empty buildings in and around the city that could be put to use. When did caring for those less fortunate become so difficult. Take care and stay safe..
A perpetual problem in many places, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteI love the pictures of the city in the pouring rain. And I want to taste Spiced Moroccan sweet potato soup, it sounds like my kind of soup. Actually I have a similar recipe based on lentils and chick peas, rather than sweet potatoes, but I bet it tastes somewhat similar. Anything spicy and Moroccan-ish is good for me!
ReplyDeleteIt is just mid-day here, and I could use a soup kitchen. Lovely rain photos. Hope you stayed dry.
ReplyDelete...one fancy soup kitchen!
ReplyDeleteI so agree with you.
ReplyDeleteLove the collage of rain photos.
Too many homeless people who could use a meal. My wife use to volunteer for a soup kitchen and there were over a hundred meals served daily, five days a week. Very sad!
ReplyDeleteSame situation in Sweden. Hard to understand how the homeless manage to survive our cold winters.
ReplyDeleteIt is the same everywhere, Grace! It is lucky that there are so many good people trying to do something about it whatever that may be.
ReplyDeletethe same everywhere it seems, and I don't think it's going to get any better. Your rainy photos are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAll those weeks wrapped into one.
ReplyDeleteSeems like historically the churches have not done their job, and consequently the governments have dropped the ball also. Afterall it takes effort and Money to help those less fortunate.
Nice to see people who care trying to help those less fortunate. That problem is everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI´ve been travelling your country twice, and visited Perth nearly often now.
ReplyDeleteThere was one "group" of homeless people, but it has changed, and not for the better.
As also here.
Glad people are willing to help.
Soup is perfect on a rainy day. Homelessness only keeps getting worse in the U.S., especially as housing costs (and healthcare, too) keep rising. Too many people are one "uh-oh" away from losing it all.
ReplyDeleteI love this type of charity organizations. Thanks...
ReplyDeleteThere must be served more soup. Sounds delicious and that for a good cause.
ReplyDeleteSuch a serious issue around here, too. Somehow the rain adds to the seriousness of the topic. Janis
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You ask a very important question. It certainly has become difficult here in the states. We see less compassion all the time.
ReplyDeleteP.S. that soup sounds interesting.
Same problem here, as everywhere. We have 500 homeless, according to the authorities, many of them refugees. Many volunteers are helping them with food, clothes, basic sanitary items, but the city or the state are of little help, despite of so many promises........
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great soup, but certainly is a fabulous initiative Grace. I feel sad to see that the numbers of homeless people seem to be growing in our cities and not much is being done to help them 🙁
ReplyDeleteIt is good that there are resources to provide them with meals even if other resources are lacking.
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