YHHAP program provides vouchers for local panhandlers
Starting this year, Yale students wishing to lend a helping hand to needy New Haven residents can make sure their money will truly improve the situation of impoverished panhandlers.
At Yale, New Haven Cares, a citywide nonprofit founded in 1996, is a division of the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project that sells vouchers to students who can then deliver the vouchers to local panhandlers. At its inception, YHHAP became involved in handling voucher distribution on campus, but the Yale division of New Haven Cares disbanded in 2003.
Last year, Alex Johnson ’08 began the...
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