Sister of Mercy

This is a slide show we did using a song Tyler wrote called Sister of Mercy.We hope it will help raise awareness of the homeless problem in our country and disspell the many misconceptions about homeless people.
According to The National Alliance to End Homelessness, (www.endhomelessness.org) 50 percent of the homeless population are families. Sources estimate that between 23 and 40 percent of homeless adults are veterans.
An overwhelming majority (80 percent) of single adult shelter users enter the homeless system only once or twice, stay just over a month, and do not return. Approximately 9 percent enter nearly five times a year and stay nearly two months each time.
This group utilizes 18 percent of the system's resources.The remaining 10 percent enter the system just over twice a year and spend an average of 280 days per stay—virtually living in the system and utilizing nearly half its resources. Many of these individuals are defined as chronically homeless.They often cycle between homelessness, hospitals, jails, and other institutional care and often have a complex medical problem, a serious mental illness like schizophrenia, and/or alcohol or drug addiction.Chronically homeless people use up more than 50 percent of the services.
It may surprise some people to find that there are more shelters available for animals than there are for people. Due to the bad economy and funding cuts,most homeless shelters are constantly full. And those shelters are in constant need of supplies and donations.
To find out more about the homeless problem and what we can do to help, go to:
http://www.endhomelessness.org

Category:

Music

Tags:

• homelessness
• political
• original
• music
• acoustic
• folk
• unsigned
• religious
• country

[VagrantVoiceTV]

Really well done & good info....and really clean guitar picking!

[LKDelahunty]

This is a beautiful video.

"Anything helps. Even a smile."

How many of us forget that?