“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” ~~Mahatma Gandhi~~
The Drumpf family, including sons Eric and Don, have always traveled all over the world on business. Now that they run the Drumpf business interests and must have Secret Service protection, it costs money to protect them.
Melania and son Barron stay most of the time in the family’s New York City apartment while the ten-year-old finishes up school. It costs money to protect them there. The family travels to their place in Palm Beach, Florida, and Drumpf’s talking about retreats at his New Jersey Drumpf golf course.
That’s the way they’ve always lived their lives.
Protecting the president isn’t easy or cheap, and according to estimates from The Washington Post, the cost to protect Drumpf and his family is on track to supersede the cost to protect former president and his family by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The photo of a Trump Tower billboard above sleeping homeless children is real
Posted by Joe Vesey-Byrne in news
A photograph of the slum children of Mumbai sleeping beneath a billboard for Trump Tower went viral in early December.
Initially denounced as a fake on Reddit and Snopes.com, the photographer Paul Needham has since come forward.
Since Trump’s elevation to the international stage as president-elect, the juxtaposition becomes even more powerful than simply a hotel magnate and people in poverty.
When the image initially went viral, some doubted its veracity.
Needham has since spoken to indy100, and verified the image.
I was in Mumbai to meet a social impact investor. I run a company called Simpa Networks, Simpa Energy here in India. We provide solar energy solutions to farmers and small shops in rural India.
After addressing Congress, Pope Francis will eat his meal with the homeless by Walter Einenkel
Francis will make by going directly to lunch with homeless people rather than with his congressional hosts after his speech on Capitol Hill will resonate on both sides of the aisle.
“He is a walking, talking parable,” said Carr. “This is a Pope who looks at the world from the bottom up and from the outside in. I think he brings to Congress and the White House a different perspective than they are used to hearing.”
The parable is clear. Pope Francis speaks to one of the most powerful groups of people in the world and then has dinner with the most invisible people in the world. There’s also something even more profound in it. By connecting this meal directly to his speech in front of Congress, he’s drawing a parallel to the Pharisees. A connection that no one wants made to them (regardless of your religious predilections).
Most of our citizenry believes that hunger only affects people who are lazy or people who are just looking for a handout, people who don’t want to work, but, sadly, that is not true.
Over one-third of our hungry people are innocent children who are members of households that simply cannot provide enough food or proper nutrition.
And to think of the elderly suffering from malnutrition is just too hard for most of us.
Unlike Third World nations, in our country the problem is not having too little – it is about not caring enough!
Write your elected representatives and promote support for the hungry.
Narayanan Krishnan (born in 1981 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu) is an Indian chef-turned-social worker
~Early life~
Krishnan was an award-winning chef with Taj Hotels, Bangalore and was short-listed for an elite job in Switzerland. After witnessing a distressing incident in 2002, he quit his job and began feeding the homeless and mentally disabled in his hometown. He said, “I saw a very old man, literally eating his own human waste out of hunger. I went to the nearby hotel and asked them what was available. They had idli, which I bought and gave to the old man. Believe me, I had never seen a person eating so fast, ever. As he ate the food, his eyes were filled with tears.
Those were the tears of happiness.
~Career~
Krishnan founded the Akshaya Trust organization in 2003, which helps to feed the homeless and mentally-disabled in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He serves breakfast, lunch and dinner to 425 indigent and elderly people in Madurai.
He also provides haircuts and shaves to give dignity to those he serves.
He was selected as one of the Top 10 in “CNN heroes 2010” list.
The character Narayanan Krishnan played by Jayaprakash in the Dulquer Salmaan 2012 Malayalam film Ustad Hotel is based on him.
Narayanan Krishnan (born 1981) is an Indian chef turned social worker. He quit his career as a leading chef and began supplying meals to the homeless in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, beginning in 2002.
Krishnan founded his nonprofit Akshaya Trust in 2003. Every day, he wakes up at 4 a.m., cooks a simple hot meal and then, along with his team, loads it in a van and travels about 125 miles (201 km) feeding the homeless and mentally-disabled in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
He serves breakfast, lunch and dinner to 400 indigent and elderly people in Madurai.
He carries a comb, scissors and razor and is trained in eight haircut styles that, along with a fresh shave, provide extra dignity to those he serves.
Out of 10,000 nominations from more than 100 countries, he is selected as one of the Top 10 in “CNN heroes 2010” list.
French film shows how people discriminate regarding people in need
An online video shows the stark difference between how people react to someone in serious trouble based on their clothes.
The film titled “The Importance of Appearances” created by French entertainer NormiTUBE begins with a man who appears to be homeless – wearing jeans, a ski hat and old gray jacket – having a medical issue on the street and ultimately collapsing to the ground.
He is then ignored for nearly five minutes as people just walk on by while he lies in the street wailing in pain and asks passersby for help. But nobody stops to assist him – even an elderly lady who stopped next to him but didn’t speak to the victim.
“What if it was you?” the film asks. “What if nobody stopped by to help you when you’re in need?”
But when a man dressed in a business suit has a similar coughing attack and falls onto the pavement the scene is much different.
People stop and immediately tend to him.
“Sir can you hear me? Try to talk to me sir! Say something!” a woman cries.
“I’ve never been so sad and shocked while filming as I was for this experience,” wrote the filmaker in the video’s description. “I hope this video will make you want to help anyone regardless of its appearance.”
~~GALLERY~~
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“The fact that everyone ignores doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. It is by simple and heroic actions that we begin to appreciate the true meaning of the word ‘humanity,'” the film states. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Par respect à la vie privée des personnes, j’avais décidé de flouter tous les visages susceptibles d’être reconnus. Mais j’ai quand même reçu une réclamation pour atteinte à la vie privée par une personne. Nouvelle vidéo cette fin de semaine.
Je n’ai jamais été aussi triste et choqué lors d’un tournage comme je l’ai été pour cette expérience.
J’espère que cette vidéo vous donnera envie d’aider n’importe qui. peu importe son apparence.
Celle-ci parle d’elle même.
TRANSLATION
Due to the respect of private life, i’ve decided not to show faces that could be recognized but I still had a complaint for invasion of privacy. New vid at the end of the week I’ve never been so sad and schocked dring a shooting as i i’ve been during this experience. I hope this vidéo will give you the desire to help anyone no matters how they look like.
Nov. 12, 1954: Ellis Island closes after admitting millions of immigrants
From 1892 to when it officially closed its doors on this day in 1954, New York’s Ellis Island processed more than 12 million immigrants coming to the U.S. At its peak in 1907, Ellis Island saw just over one million immigrants, with 11,747 people processed on April 17 of that year – the all-time daily high.
Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation’s busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990. Long considered part of New York, a 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found that most of the island is in New Jersey. The south side of the island, home to the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is closed to the general public and the object of restoration efforts spearheaded by Save Ellis Island.
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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