Salvation Army

The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit is still $5 million away from reaching its $8.2 million 2011 Red Kettle Campaign fundraising goal, and 9 percent below its fundraising pace from last year.

Nearly 20 percent of 16.8 percent of Michigan residents living in dire poverty.

According to Governor Rick Snyder, The Salvation Army is the largest private provider of social services in the state.
This past year, The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit was involved in providing...

3,194,802 million meals 

and 687,203 nights of shelter for the homeless. 

The Salvation Army uses $.85 of every dollar raised to provide direct services to people in need each and every day of the year.

Disaster relief by the Salvation Army

Today the Salvation Army is best known for its charitable efforts.
The Salvation Army is a non-governmental relief agency and is usually among the first to arrive with help after natural or man-made disasters. They have worked to alleviate suffering and help people rebuild their lives. After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, they arrived immediately at some of the worst disaster sites to help retrieve and bury the dead.
Since then they have helped rebuild homes and construct new boats for people to recover their livelihood. Members were prominent among relief organizations after Hurricane Hugo and Hurricane Andrew and other such natural disasters in the United States. In August 2005, they supplied drinking water to poor people affected by the heat wave in the United States. Later in 2005 they responded to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Most recently they have helped the victims of the May 2006 Indonesian Earthquake.

Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, The Salvation Army has allocated donations of more than $365 million to serve more than 1.7 million people in nearly every state. The Army’s immediate response to Hurricane Katrina included the mobilization of more than 178 canteen feeding units and 11 field kitchens which together have served more than 5.7 million hot meals, 8.3 million sandwiches, snacks and drinks.

Its SATERN (Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network) network of amateur ham-radio operators picked up where modern communications left off to help locate more than 25,000 survivors. And, Salvation Army pastoral care counselors were on hand to comfort the emotional and spiritual needs of 277,000 individuals. As part of the overall effort, Salvation Army officers, employees and volunteers have contributed more than 900,000 hours of service.

The Salvation Army was one of the first relief agencies on the scene of the 9/11 attacks in New York. They also provided prayer support for families of missing people.


Donate NOW to the Salvation Army

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Donate NOW to the Salvation Army

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Donate NOW to the Salvation Army

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School Ain't what it Use to Be

A Bachelors degree at a 4 year university is no longer worth the $25,000 investment.  Instead of preparing the next generation of leaders for the jobs of tomorrow a 4 year university degree college has become a finical black hole that most people will NEVER pbe able to pay back. 

High school students have it drilled into their heads that they MUST go to college!   It USE TO BE true that a college education WAS worth the money.  The fact of the matter is that the quality of education at America's colleges and universities is ranked just above West Nigeria in SAT scores.   The thing NO ONE is talking about is that there are way too many college graduates and not nearly enough quality jobs.

In the USA there are millions upon millions of Americans that are enslaved, FOR LIFE, to student loan debt.   The cold hard truth is that 98 percent of  college graduates with a bachelor degree just bought a ticket to a crappy low level job. 


Disturbing Facts about a College Education  

1) After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.

2) The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.

3) Over the past 25 years, the cost of college tuition has increased at an average rate that is 7-10 percent higher than the average rate of inflation.

4) The cost of college textbooks has tripled over the past decade.

5) The student loan default rate has doubled since 2005 and will soon triple.

6) 15 percent of all students that graduate with student loan debt end up defaulting within 3 years of making their first student loan payment.

7)  Federal statistics reveal that only 40 percent of the full-time students who began college in 2001 received a bachelor's degree within four years.

8) 33 percent of college grads end up taking jobs that don't even require college degrees.

9) In the United States today, over  100,000 janitors that have college degrees.

10) In the United States today, over 450,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.

11) In the United States today, over 360,000 cashiers now have college degrees.

12) Today in 2011 there are more then 8 million college grads under 25 living with their parents because they have a diploma, but can't find a job.

13)  Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households for the ages of 25 to 34 have fallen by about 12 percent, while college costs have increased by 50 percent in the last ten years.

14) The only way 99 percent of college grads will be able to pay off their college loans in their life time is to win the Lottery.