Homeless Youth

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, January 20, 1961

"Thousands of children run away from home each year in Canada. In 1995, for example, 75% of the 56,749 missing children who were reported to the police were runaways. Police departments say that, although 90% of these runaway children return home within 60 days of leaving, the others never go back. Alarming as these figures are, runaways account for only a portion of the homeless youth population, which also includes young people living in shelters with their mother or both parents".

(http://www.canadiancrc.com/Homeless_Children_and_Youths_in_Canada.htm#composition(11)txt)

Hungy Sign

Songs of Innocence: The Little Boy Found by William Blake

The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the wand'ring light,
Began to cry, but God ever nigh,
Appeard like his father in white.

He kissed the child & by the hand led
And to his mother brought,
Who in sorrow pale, thro' the lonely dale
Her little boy weeping sought.

(Pictures retrieved April 7, 2006, from www.google.com/images. Keywords "homeless" and "homeless youth".)