June_2013_Good_Sam.pdf
Kids Imagine Perfect Playground: Build Day is May 31st
Robert, 6, drew monkey bars and a colorful slide. Danae,11, drew swings and a climbing wall. A clubhouse and even a swimming pool were among the pictures created when children who live at SVDP were invited to a special Design Day event in our Open Hand Kitchen. Brenna Hull, KaBOOM!’s project coordinatorfor SVDP’s playground, encouraged…
May 2013 Good Samaritan
May_2013_Good_Sam.pdf
Bikes By the Numbers
Bikes By the Numbers 45: Bicycles Donated37: Homeless men who have earned bikes 17: Bicycles donated to children living in our family apartments17: Bicycles given to SVDP children in April.30: Heavy-duty U-Locks donated by a shelter volunteer35: Pounds lost by one male adult client since he began riding his “new” bike
Earning Bikes Help Homeless Men Move Forward
A new program at our men’s homeless shelter, Ozanam Inn, is not only helping to motivate men – but to keep them mobile as well. Free bicycles are offered as an incentive to men staying at the shelter as a reward for completing certain tasks or working toward goals that help move them toward self-sufficiency….
April 2013 Good Sam
April_2013_Good_Sam.pdf
Kids Root for Cardinals
Thanks to the generosity of St. Vincent de Paul donor Phil Gahm, children who live in our supportive housing programs for formerly homeless families got to enjoy the thrill of watching a Louisville Cardinals men’s basketball game at the KFC Yum! Center recently. Gahm, through his charity the Champ Foundation, donated use ofhis arena suite…
March 2013 Good Samaritan
March_2013_Good_Sam.pdf
In Recovery, Rickey’s Learning to Read
Rickey Saunders is a soft-spoken man who has battled alcoholism for years. “Alcohol has always been a bad problem for me,” says Rickey, 55. “I was a black-out drinker; I would wake up places and not know where I was. I had a hard time quitting.”
An Arkansas native, he was living in Louisville when he became homeless a year ago. He went to Texas and found seasonal work picking oranges. Wandering from Corpus Christi to San Antonio, he slept in the streets or in homeless encampments, shelters and rescue missions.
In Austin, he was given a Greyhound bus ticket to come back to Louisville, eventually landing on the doorstep of St. Vincent dePaul’s Ozanam Inn men’s homeless shelter last July 2. He entered SVDP’s DR (Dormitory Residency) Program, which guaranteed him a bed every night, and gave him the support of SVDP’s case management services.
February 2013 Good Samaritan
February_2013_Good_Sam.pdf
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