homeless

Tuesday night while driving through downtown Lafayette I saw the true meaning of Christmas.

Have you ever seen the HGTV show Tiny House, Big Living? Well, Santosha is all about dialing back and down-sizing in the name of freedom and self sufficiency. Find out how Haiyan Khan is going to set up his one-acre lot dedicated to rehabilitating the homeless of New Orleans.

This winter St. Joseph Shelter for Men is undergoing extensive renovations and cannot serve as one of the winter overflow shelters in the area.

When you donate to the shelters, you'll not only be making today better for the homeless and hungry people in Acadiana, you'll be making their tomorrow better, too.

The number of homeless veterans in Acadiana is dropping, and that's not by accident. Several agencies have been working together to bring the total number of homeless veterans in Acadiana down to 0 by the end of 2016, and they are succeeding. ...

All of these donations are for the homeless students in Lafayette Parish. Thank you, Acadiana, for coming through for the kids!

From all of us at Townsquare Media, please know how appreciative we are of your Herculean efforts to fix this easily solved need this Christmas. You have definitively set in motion a chain of events for these kids that all of us in Acadiana will benefit from as these children grow up in our community.

In Lafayette Parish there are 755 homeless students registered in school and Spa Mizan is helping make their Christmas a little merrier.

I read this story on Facebook a few months back about a local resident who helped a homeless ex-con, and it reminded me that, no matter how bad my day gets, there is someone not as fortunate having a harder time. Here is the story, copy/pasted directly from Facebook: September 12, 2014 Worth your time to read...

The free monthly cultural film series, Les Vues, is held the last Monday of each month at the Vermilionville Performance Center.

Though we may not notice as we go about our day to day business, there are hundreds of people in Acadiana who spend nights in boxes, under bridges, or public parks.

A team of merry pranksters decided to give some homeless people a Merry Christmas. Watch this video and let the spirit of Christmas carry you forward into 2014!

Monday is veterans day and it is really sad that in this country we haven't taken care of these heroic men and women.  This is a story about one homeless vet who was found by volunteers that took him off the street for a complete makeover.  These wonderful people gave one man the will to go on by just giving a little of their time.

These two young men have a point here: most internet 'trends' are not worth anything.  They are on a mission to change that, starting with making the homeless smile....

News of Jeffries' comments has led to enormous an amount of criticism for A & F, particularly from Greg Karber. Karber, a filmmaker from LA, expressed his disappointment in the clothing company's marketing strategy by creating a film that attempts to 'rebrand' A & F.

Here's a homeless man's story in his own words.  You need to watch this video and share it.

When studying the wave of violent zombie-like attacks that have captivated the nation in recent weeks, one reoccurring similarity becomes clear. In each case the violent perpetrators were believed to be under the influence of a drug known innocently as ‘Bath Salts’...

Lafayette Catholic Service Centers and 25 local restaurants are teaming up for Dine for the Diner, an annual fundraising event benefitting St. Joseph Diner.

Can you imagine being down on your luck, pushing a shopping cart with all of your earthly belongings through Girard Park, and a man approaches and introduces himself as a Private Investigator?  What do you do?  Cut and run?  Shake his hand and be leery? Stare in disbelief, wondering how this PI knows your name?

What a great story.. but what about the rest of the homeless? Tens of millions of Americans got to know Ted Williams this week. On Monday, a video of Williams showing off his impressive radio voice to a journalist from the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch began to spread across the Internet...