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Continued from Students get a peek at homeless lifestyle "We spread it between the three places just to emphasize the fact that homeless people are not only middle-aged men," Penen said. "lt's also women, children. Cami- lies." be "To a certain degree, we have our own human- rights violations in our own com- munity, so we decided to put a spotlight on that," he said, adding he lives by the motto think globally. act locally. "We take courses that focus on global issues, and we're con- stamly thinking about that and how can we change that. But something we don't always think about is what dif- ference we can make in our own community." The main hon Hit of this type of (wt-tit is the fact " brings attention of” of this type of own! is the fact it brings attention In the want. said Brian Humbug”. the Houw of Friendship", developmvnt director "The funds they take arr sir, nificant as well, hut ohvmusly the dollars aren't going to solve the homelessness problem in and of thvmscives," hrs said There Mr between LSOO In 2.000 homeless people In Water. loo Region at any given ttme, according In For ten, And. Hunk berger said that figure tends to nuctote with population rates and affordabler housing availahil ity "T here ate a number of people who are often refund to as homeless who for \armm "alums, ll sometimes involving mental health and addictions, are always in a situation where they find it difficult to maintain housing on any kind of consistent basis," he said. "Even in an affluent community like ours, there tends to be a cer- tain number of people in that situation and probably that increases with population growth." From Morrow's experience working at Safe Haven in Kitchen- er, students don't have any idea about the number of people affected by homeless- ness locally She believes that's because they can't Ifi‘i'n'é": ifiiei)!lii? '8j)[lllljl, see it. And she's scared about the possible fate of some people if places like Safe Haven didn't exist. "If we have a youth come at l:30 in the morning and bang on our doors with their pajamas on because they've been kicked out of their house, I think about what would happen if we weren't there. "They would be on the streets, and it does, n't matter what time of year (it is)." Peuen’s also been to downtown Kitchener, and knows the strug- gles some people face. pe 'Ht's kidd dr unfair," said the M-year-old "I see a lot of people in Kitchener-Waterloo who are very affluent, driving their very large car and throwing their money around, and I find that hard to believe considering people are sleeping on the streets or they don't have food to eat." psychology mapr. The Out in the Cold event, which ran from 7 pm. on Friday to 7 a.m. on Saturday, included a number of activities for the panic ipanls. none of which required electricity. I Come bane to us every Wednesday! I wATEgiriij"7'j"iiiiijNIcII 30 BENJAMIN RD. WATERLOO 519.886.3000 www.furniture.ca flw¢i§hfl. Every two hours there was a reflection circle on topics like youth and homeless- ness, and mental ill- ness and homeless- ness. And a mock soup kitchen was set up inside the school to keep the students nourished. "It's nothing fancy." said Morrow, whose mom served the soup. "But we do have to take into consideration the safety of the students who (came) out for 12 hours." wnenwo CHIONICLE . Wednesday, Aplil 4. 2007 .