In 2016, high school rising junior Hank Sanders had an inkling of an idea. He wanted to take his school’s popular culinary arts class and give the food to people experiencing homelessness. As it stood, students ate the food they cooked.
Outside Portland, Oregon’s Lincoln High School, where Sanders attends, he saw people who were sleeping on the streets. He approached his friends with his idea and they ran with it.
As with many cities across the U.S., Portland has a homelessness problem. In 2015, when the city’s homeless count was 3,801, then-Mayor Charlie Hales declared a housing crisis. There was a 9.9 percent increasein the homeless population between 2015 and 2017, according to the 2017 Point-in-Time report from Portland State University and its partners.
[For more of this story, written by Deonna Anderson, go to http://www.yesmagazine.org/peo...al-homeless-20180615]
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