Facebook - Covenant House International

A few days ago I became a supporter of Covenant House International, a charity organization that concentrates on homeless youth,   and I spent some time studying it’s Facebook page.

Below is one of the YouTubes I found. Click on it twice (sometimes more than twice) and it will take you to the YouTube page with many more YouTubes about Covenant House. One that I watched states that there is about 1.3 million homeless youth in the USA 
*!* Gasp *!* Gasp *!* Gasp *!*

Then there's the work of Feeding America:

Here's more statistics:

Does Canada compete?

Yes, Canada competes! Let's not forget those chickens in Vancouver:


~ Chickens in Vancouver ~



Another YouTube states that there are 200,000 homeless in Toronto.
 *!* Gasp *!* 
Hard to believe but, at least Canada is doing better than the USA.

This situation deserves Government intervention. I think it’s a good place to spend our tax dollars. It’s time to use those stamps we have stashed away and sit and write those letters to our MPP’s and MP’s insisting on more attention to this matter. We happily take in all the poor souls who wash up on our shores so why does Canada not take care of their own?

Charity organizations often advertise asking us to do without lunch or that coffee from the coffee shop and donate the money to their cause. I think we’ve all done without enough lunches and coffees from the coffee shop because now we’re surrounded by restaurants and coffee shops that have gone out of business and all their employees have lost their jobs. Some of us do without perfume, flowers, new shoes, belts, socks, even underwear, and ditto for these shops.

ThisYouTube features “Patrick” from Northern Ireland who went to America for a fresh start. Take a look …

Boy, this sounds like some operation Covenant House is running in New York City! I wonder how many more kids from Northern Ireland are homeless in New York City? For that matter, just how many kids from the UK went to the USA looking for greener pastures and ended up living in the streets or are barely surviving?

As a Canadian, I think these kids should be our responsibility and that they should not be relying on the generosity of America. There’s always a price to pay. We take in refugees from Pakistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka, etc., etc., who just get on boats and float over to Canada without even speaking English, without an education and without going through the immigration process. We provide them with food and shelter and all the necessities of life. What about our own from the United Kingdom who have lost their way? Integrating them into our society is easily done and they deserve equal treatment by the Canadian system.

I know, I know, the current Provincial and Federal Governments cater totally to the wealthy and the University educated, and there’s no denying it. But, with election time just around the corner, and if we make enough of a fuss, we can have them ousted. Let’s bring this to the Government’s attention and insist that the homeless situation be addressed in the Legislatures and that the homeless from the United Kingdom who are somewhere, anywhere in the USA be offered transportation to Canada, from their Covenant Houses to our Covenant Houses until suitable lodgings are located and the proper paperwork filed for welfare.

Let's face it, North America is no longer the land of opportunity: