Comments on: Free Bus Ride Available To Cold Weather Shelters; Shelter Opening In Century

By: You would Be surprised

You would Be surprised — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:00:03 +0000

You Would be surprised how many homeless access everything Online. Multiple Businesses now a days have free public WiFi. All your library s have WiFi 24/7 and Public access Computers. All they need is a Old phone, it doesn’t even need to have service just turn on and they can surf the internet with WiFi. They would be more inclined to get it here than any news paper or word to mouth source.

By: William

William — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:19:49 +0000

>>Was wondering how many homeless people really know about this? I assume they won’t get the message via computer…and if other people who live without enough heat in their homes to need this service, I also assume they cannot afford a computer.

A surprising number of homeless people have computers or smartphones, especially in the Pensacola metro.

But I agree — this is one time NorthEscambia.com is not the best way to reach the homeless population of Century. But we do reach the people that know how to find the homeless.

And NorthEscambia turned to several area radio stations and asked them to broadcast the information, along with local TV.

Any other ideas?

By: Getting the news out (of the cold)?

Getting the news out (of the cold)? — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:15:57 +0000

Was wondering how many homeless people really know about this? I assume they won’t get the message via computer…and if other people who live without enough heat in their homes to need this service, I also assume they cannot afford a computer.

What other methods of communication are being used to get the word out to those in need?