Friday, August 16, 2013

Day 196



“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
        ― Plato






Utah Man Build Micro Shelters for the Homeless


PLEASANT GROVE — Gary Pickering can enjoy sitting in the shade on his front porch on a hot summer day, but it's something he hasn't always been able to do. At one time in his life, after a divorce, he was homeless.
"I lived in my shop for about three years, so I was basically homeless."
Pickering became sympathetic to those he met, who really had nowhere to live.
"I had four homeless people living outside my shop. It was 1988 which was a bad winter but they lived in my van all through the winter."
20 years later in 2009, Pickering was driving through Provo. He saw a homeless man and started to wonder what he could do to help...  (full story)

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