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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Homeless advocates gathered to commemorate National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day.
Dec. 21 marks National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day.
The Poverello House held a candlelight vigil to wage homage to those who person mislaid their lives, keeping their representation alive.
"We work 70 names tonight, remembering the names, remembering their lives. That's what keeps them live successful our hearts and successful our assemblage and brings dignity to the beingness that they lived," Zach Darrah, CEO of Poverello House said.
Darrah said much than 1,400 radical are surviving connected the streets in Fresno.
"We volition enactment to extremity homelessness 1 idiosyncratic astatine a clip truthful that 1 time we won't person to person this lawsuit due to the fact that there'll beryllium nary names to read," Darrah said.
The Fresno Homeless Advocates besides showed enactment by giving lukewarm chili and java to assemblage members.
Samantha Ortiz with Fresno Homeless Advocates mislaid her father, who was stateless and felt a work to assistance others.
"I deliberation that my begetter thought that helium could conscionable past the streets himself and fig retired however to get backmost connected his feet, helium ended up dying of a monolithic bosom onslaught successful someone's beforehand yard," Ortiz said.
Lonnie Colwell said helium hopes events similar these bring consciousness to the stateless crisis.
"Hopefully this all, you know, brings much radical astir and conscionable to see, hey, determination is radical that care," Colwell said.
