'5
OPINION
Real help. Ior . .
homeless families
ConServe made a di.fferen�
because the People 0 run 'it
understand that some homeless
families need more thin Band
Aid Ip to get back on their
feet
Fir t, ConServe
caseworker sits down with a
bOII:lCieSS family to map out a
series of tell' that . lead to
the fa ily's ese seH-suf ..
ficicDcy. The . different
for eada family - . could' -
such elem.eots as job help,
tutoring. educatioa, child care,
or . therapy.
But CoDServe DO that
there • ,tial COot
pooent to my faIIliIy's survival:
. a home of' own. For
th· reason, CooServe also bel
families obtain subsidizedbous
ing. The housing s idy itself'
fmanced y the Washington,
lUD�eSI.DUlli Wilr H.
llUIilflDlD of the House
rent
T e ConServe approach
A program tba ooJy got
. 0 full . in February of
1987 ha alreadj helped 44
famir mo into their 0WIl
apartme • Roughly two-thirds
of these famities now include a
member who' wor' 0 in a
job tr .. program.
Wonderful ConServe is, its
• efforts are-dwarfed by the grow
ing numbers of homeless
fapillies in out nation's capital
ACcording to CouSe� mote
than 800 families' Washingto
bcame me and turned to
the city's shelter system in 1986!
al . Shelters are not a solu
tion. We need to eXpand Con
Serve and et up similiar
pr-ograms in cities around the
country. ,
If you \YOuld like more infor
mation, contact Tony Russo,
Exemtive Directo , O>nServe,
1536 16th Street, N. W.,
Washington, D.C. 20036, or caD
202-232-3355.
vice ..,..I'VI"!II"C
wroog about
lleaYaD rcpae.
TIac RcapD regime would
bMe people be� .
boa eat up cbeir earoiap
and DOt 1000000000000t taxes, but .
the f cts are that failure to
provide �tiYe beaItb and
social care COltS e i the
A doUar imat-
ment in preschool ed caitoo
. • msas
W
debt should DOt be repaid. To repay i would
be un' It Id be like pl' war repar boos two times
OYer. Where does . debt COIDC from, anyhow? It co
&0 Deeds' posed on us by other countries. Did Deed
to build mansio or teU doctors that they would reeebe a
f salary tbe end on the th? or ft ter the n
tality of cwerpaid men amoag our offic::ers? We were coerced
. to numing up � heavy debts. .. We e ered into some
rather weighty fUWIcial coqnnitmea - often ug ted,
proposed, aDd organized by the same people 0 d US
themoaey.
ne paure to pay the debt doesn't CO &0 isolated
of a' bank. It's doae by an entire, organized sys-
tea; so tba . the �nt on .ymeat, they can detain your
pIaDea an airport or refuse to SCGd you spart parts are
am.()IUlleiy· . pensable. So decidiog to pay requres
. ed-fr dio all the COD • coacemed ould ad
toge.tber - e cooditioD, of course., l ch' ope to
IOOIW' .. aiticaDy t the y they fun Cer-
tain people 0 ha� CODtracted h debts because of their
own lavish personal expenses doa'l deserve our support.
to those who ha� uf-
fered the We BurkiDabe th sworn never again
to accept the malIest injustice . smallest corn r of
the earth, It' our memory of that p ce US
ide by ide with the p . Lhra', Organization
aga� the armed ban<k of Israel and us support the
African congress d the South West Africa Peop 's Or
ganisatio while fiDding' tolerable' presence, on sou�
African soil African soil, of n destroy the d m
the name of being white.·