On Sunday, June 27, a few of us headed to the sweet grounds of Club Paesano in Gresham to help Human Solutions. HS is one of our favorite groups, whose website reads that "Human Solutions eliminates barriers to escaping poverty through emergency family shelter, job training, affordable housing, eviction prevention, and emergency household assistance". The event on the 27th was a fundraising Jamboree complete with a local country music act, a hot dog stand, raffles and games. The weather was beautiful, the event was well publicized..... and almost no one came. A hard pill to swallow for the Human Solutions family who is a very hard-working and dedicated crowd. There's really no explanation for the poor attend
ance aside from a lot of competing activities on a beautiful summer day. We were there to help the few people who did show, and then we were able to offer help cleaning up and taking down. Humans Solutions and all their clients will keep pressing forward - on to the next big idea, fighting the good fight to end the cycle of poverty in logical, sustainable ways. Best wishes!!
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