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发表于 2016-7-10 09:21:29 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
  The Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $5
million to three different local nonprofit organizations. The money will be
distributed over a four-year period and is aimed at helping approximately 1,000
homeless people in the county of Arvada.
          One agency, with headquarters in Woodbridge, is slated to receive $1.5
million. The agency director says that they will focus their resources on
educating the homeless. “We will probably build another school-home with this
money,” he said. “A school-home is exactly what it sounds like. It is a school
and a home. We have already built four school-homes throughout the county. We
get the homeless off the street, and we educate them so they don't have to
return to the street. We teach them how to be auto mechanics, plumbers,
landscapers, painters, carpenters, bricklayers, electricians, and
air-conditioning repairmen.
          “You wouldn't believe the success that we have had. In fact, a couple of
weeks ago, our office air-conditioning went out. My secretary called a
repairman. The repairman was one of our first homeless students. He now owns his
own air-conditioning business, plus two houses, two cars and a boat! He has a
dozen employees. Holy cow! He's doing better than I am. He fixed our
air-conditioning for free. I think I might sign up for the air-conditioning
class myself.”
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