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Maurice Rowland/Miguel Alvarez -- Vanessa Wanderlingh
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Maurice Rowland/Miguel Alvarez -- Vanessa Wanderlingh
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Here's two good people for you. Maurice Rowland (on the left) is a cook. Miguel Alvarez is a janitor.
They were working at a nursing home in California when the company that was running the facility shut down. Naturally the staff weren't being paid -- so they left. Except for Miguel and Maurice, who felt they had no choice but to stay there and help the sixteen abandonned patients -- many of whom suffered from dementia. They cooked, they cleaned, they passed out meds, and generally took care of people -- just the two of them -- for several days until the authorities got involved. Please go
here
, where you can listen to them tell their story. It will take less than three minutes, and it will brighten up your day.
Vanessa Wanderlingh is another good person. She a "homeless conditions officer" in New York City's 20th precinct. She befriended (and arrested many times for
"aggressive panhandling") a homeless man named Eric Glenn Smith. Mr. Smith was a regular at the corner of Broadway and 80th, where he would hold the door for customers and ask for spare change -- a friendly fixture to some, a nuisance to others.
When Mr. Smith died recently, Vanessa didn't want to see him buried in a "potter's field". People in the neighborhood donated money -- from ten dollars to several hundred. A funeral home agreed to conduct a funeral service and see to the burial for $2,000. You can read all about it
here
. (it'll take a little longer, but it will help restore your faith in humanity -- which, if it's like mine -- has taken quite a beating lately).