A panel of eight New England homeless people spoke about the country's growing homelessness problem in Smith Hall at the Harvard Hillel yesterday.
The main goal of the event, according to Hillel organizers, was to put a human face on the problem of homelessness.
Each speaker told a different story about his or her slide into poverty.
All had either been victims of mental or physical illness, child abuse, drug addiction or alcoholism.
One man, George Capinegro, explained how, within a year, his mother died, he lost his restaurant and his marriage ended.
"It seemed like the whole world was gone. Nothing was left," he said.
Throughout the night, the six homeless men and two homeless women also tried to dispel myths about homelessness.
Catherine Rhodes objected to the belief that homeless people are uneducated.
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