:: Solutions to the Homeless Problem ::

:: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 ::

Help Homeless to Obtain a Cell Phone Service


Posted by Mr. Cheng with (248) Comments


I have explained the importance of a cell phone to people who became homeless and proved that it is one of the most important homeless solutions. And I have proposed that the Department of Homeless Services of any city should consider providing a free cell phone to homeless people in their city. Now, I have found a nice T-Moble broker Mr. David Weiniger, willing to provide 1,000 cell phones to help homeless to obtain their own cell phone.

Through my experience of help thousands of homeless people, the most difficult part for homeless to obtain a cell phone was that they could not pass the credit check; they have been unable to keep up their financial before eventually became homeless. Anyone able to maintain financial good credit can easily obtain a free cell phone these days with very little up front money. But, for people like Tracy who would provide homeless a cell phone to help them find jobs would have to pay big deposit for them. Some organizations like "Coalition for the Homeless" may provide homeless a free voice mail, but it could not compete with a free incoming call cell phone and free local call cell phone on job seeking and other application for the homeless on the street.

Now, with the help of millionaire Mr. David Weiniger, who has 20 year experience of trading options at Wall Street, Tracy and many other sponsors would be able to easily help homeless to obtain a cell phone service thru David's cell service. If you are homeless, current or former, and desperatedly need a cell phone service, please do not hesitate to come to our Cell Phone for Homeless Yahoo Group, and we will sure to see how we can get you one at your affordability.


:: Mr Cheng 4:02 PM [+] ::
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Use Yahoo Group to Create Support Group for A Homeless


Posted by Mr. Cheng with (356) Comments


I have proposed one homeless solution to have many people to form a support group to help one homeless person or family to move off homelessness since it normally may take lots of resources to move a homeless off homelessness. For example, it averagely takes 11 months for New York City Homeless Department to help a homeless family to move off homelessness and cost about $30,000. From my own experience, it costs me from dozen hundreds to ten thousands to do so. Therefore, a group of people supporting a homeless person or family would be much easier and realistic. But how to coordinate the support group cost effectively is a big challenge.

For past year, I have been piloting on using Yahoo Group to setup a support group for each homeless came to me for help, and I have found it very powerful, and quite a few already moved off homelessness. I believe it works well, and here are some of my hands on experience that others may find very useful:

1. I can create Yahoo Group for the homeless person or homeless families who came to me right away, but it is important to make it a private group because from then on, all the conversations and posted messages are supposed to be private, NOT to be searchable at Internet, and any future members should be invited or moderated and disconnected should there be any undesired conversations that may contradict the purpose of supporting the homeless to move off homelessness.

2. It is very important to keep in mind, that for each support group, should support only ONE homeless or homeless family. The Homeless Guy used to have a link to a Yahoo Group but did not succeed and later abandoned because so many homeless were put into that ONE group. Each Yahoo support group supposed to have only ONE homeless and the rest support members have lots of resources. The reason is simply because homeless represent low energy in Feng Shuei, and too many homeless people in a group will sure to fight, fight for the limited resources. e.g. If one supporter kicks in $100 cash assistance as s/he see fit for one homeless s/he wants to help, others will feel discriminated ...etc. This is similar to the old failed HUD program putting all the low income families in one building, and one homeless per Yahoo Group is like new Section 8 program that very few low income families in the same rental apartment.

3. The moderator of the support group should be the person asking all kinds of questions and show all the concerns, and the homeless person or family being supported will post messages talking about their needs and difficulty that will automatically sent to this group members. And, any member will posted donation intent or resource sharing as s/he see fit at the convenient time. All the help will be sent directly from the group member to the supported homeless. e.g. email cash assistance thru PayPal, wiring money to homeless on street without bank account thru Western Union, shipping used computer or clothes ...etc.

4. At the time, when not enough resources or members in the support group to respond easily to the demand of the homeless being supported, the moderator or other members should invite other wealthy or resourcesful friends or family member to join the group. e.g. After email emergency cash to help a homeless down Atlanta thru PayPal and provide lots of useful local for rent websites remotely, the homeless after got the SDDI and food stamp needed a used car, so we invited a friend's brother-in-law relocated down there who later donated his used car to the homeless after buying a new car.

5. It is important that the homeless being supported ONLY posts message or request openly in the group, rather than target any particular member. One good thing about the Yahoo Group is that it distants the homeless and the support members; e.g. I have a group supporting a homeless in Atlanta containing several dozens friends or families members from UK, NY, NJ, GA, CA, Taiwan, China ...etc. That way, the group only working on helping the homeless move off homelessness, nothing to feel uncomfortable normally face to face may bring. Many homeless on street can communicate very decently thru posting messages and share lots of their experience that may benefit the support group as well.

This solution works very well because it emulates the Project Management process at JP Morgan Chase. A project manager first request resources, system admin, dba, programmer ...etc and form a project group, just like the moderator of the support group first creates a Yahoo Group and invite all sorts of related people, friends, social worker, doctor, lawyer, ...etc to join the group. From then on, a regular project meeting driving lots of tasks that different resources will complete and status will be reported on next project meeting. Whenever resource insufficient, allocate more. The homeless being supported is like the "Customer" of a project and will participate the project meeting and making the request and the moderator is like the "Project manager" continue evaluating the request and turn them to requirement and make result happened.

6. Yahoo Group is a great tool for this purpose and is free; it is more than an email list, once created, both the supported homeless and members can easily reach all the group, yet not revealing the real email address if chose not too. Each member can also choose to receive individual email, or daily summary, or no email at all can come to group browse all the posted messages and respond when have time. It can also store files, useful resource links, websites, database ...etc. If one knows how to use it effectively, it can provide the function of state of the art Project Management functions as well.


:: Mr Cheng 12:40 AM [+] ::
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Invite Homeless People to White House by Pesident


Posted by Mr. Cheng with (1248) Comments


When I visited George Washington's home at Mount Vernon VA, I was told by the guided tour to dozens of visitor that George Washington was very generous that he let his visitors stay at his big house, even when he was not around, and the guide even showed us the rooms where he hosts all these visitors. The crowd admired!!

Then, I raised my hand and asked "Did George Washington help homeless? Does he let homeless people need emergency help to stay at his huge house?" All of a sudden, it was quiet, and the guide was somehow embarrasing, but she did not lie. So, I told her and the crowd that I know a nice lady in New Jersey who invite homeless to her place and help the homeless to move off homelessness.

Later I spoke to the foundation and urged them to invite homeless people to George Washington's big house; I told them $11 admission is not affordable by homeless families... And George Washington may be very happy that your foundation to do this that he never able to do.

I told them I believe the reason there are 8 millions of homeless people in this great country simply because the greatest American like George Washington do not invite homeless to his house and help homeless move off homelessness. Therefore general American follows.

If President George Bush would invite just a few homeless families to White House and help them move off homelessness, I believe general American families would follow and millions of homeless families would move off homelessness. After all, there are hundreds of millions American families whereas only million homeless.
:: Mr Cheng 5:53 PM [+] ::
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Use Reflexology to Cure Knees Problems from Sitting up Sleeping


Posted by Mr. Cheng with (167) Comments


Many homeless people, due to sitting up sleep, have knee problem and suffer a lot thereafter in addition to being homelessness. I have found Reflexology the best way to cure the problem right away without medical cost. It helps me a lot because I had the same problem due to I had to drive to train station to take NJ Transit to Newark NJ and transferred PATH to 33rd St Midtown Manhattan, then transfer N/R NYC Subway to Wall St before walking to office; it took me averagely 2 and a half hour to commute one way, and I had to get up at 4:30am each day to catch 5:14 am train so that I can arrive Manhattan early enough to take homeless people I helped to bank's cafeteria for breakfast talking over their problems before started working. In the evening, I had the reverse route after long day busy work, so I almost sit up sleeping at subway and train every day for 5 hours as homeless people. This also because I almost sit up late each night, after taking care of 4 kids, to visit various homeless blogs, reading homeless news and answer emails from homeless came to me for help nationwide. Here is the solution that I just emailed to Kevin Barbieux in response to his knee problem today on his blog website that I believe can also help hundreds of thousands homeless people who have such problem or other health problem.

Dear Kevin,

I just came across your knee problem ( http://thehomelessguy.net/ ), and I believe if you do what I am going to show you, your knee problem will be cured right away.

Every organ of human body has a corresponding spot on the feet, and the knees' corresponding spots are "at the edge right next to the heels". When the organ has problem, the corresponding spots will feel pain when pressed. On the other hand, if you massage the corresponding spot, the problem of the organ will go away, providing you drink enough water.

I did not invent all this, it has been thousand years and it is called "reflextology" ( http://www.aboutreflexology.com/ ) Joe at Jersey City ( http://joeatjerseycity.blogspot.com/ ) also had knee problem, and I showed him how to cure it.

I believe it is to anyone's advantage to learn Reflextology, especially people don't have much resource to go to hospital, and if you start learning Reflextology, it would help you. If you share this to hundreds of thousands people that read your website, you will help all of them, especially, homeless people on the street.

How do you think?

Cheng
http://homeless123.blogspot.com/

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...About a month ago I noticed that both my knees ached - mainly when walking up or down stairs, or rising from a chair. And, the pain in my right knee seems to be getting worse. I've discovered by way of this irritation, that I always lead with my right leg. I'm now trying to remember to use the left one instead, for those steps up onto the bus, or walking down a flight of stairs. It could be arthritis. My Grandmother had problems with her knees. I was born with minor scoliosis (curvature of the spine) and I do have arthritis in my spine. The scoliosis was discovered by a routine x-ray during the physical
when I joined the Navy. I have a suspicion my parents knew about it but
never told me...
:: Mr Cheng 2:06 AM [+] ::
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Use Priceline.com to Obtain Hotel at Little Price


Posted by Mr. Cheng with (718) Comments


Many homeless people, once in a while got stuck on the situation when shelter room is full, or when they are on street for many days and need to use hotel room to refresh or take a shower ...etc, they may have paid too much for the hotel room that is low class yet NOT cheap!

I have found Priceline.com the best way to bid a nice hotel for only a fraction of the normal price. Some of my experience is document at My Priceline Blog for your reference. These are all real cases.

If you are homeless, unemployed, poor with limit resources and want to have a chargeup high energy level hotel room, you can check what others got at Bidding Travel Forum. For example, if you are a homeless in Greater New York area, and you can team up 4 people and got this Hyatt Regency at Jersey City at $32 dollars, your cost is only $8 that would make you feel highly energized to your future!!!

:: Mr Cheng 12:06 AM [+] ::
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