Matthew, Keep your head up. Your heart is in the right place. By inspiring the next generation, you open the world for yourself too. Keep doing what you are doing. All it takes is a belief that things can change. You are doing just that. Stay strong. 💗
@vincebella33283 жыл бұрын
God bless 🙏 you for helping.
@sheilaroashan93314 жыл бұрын
Mathew this world needs more people like you
@cynthiacampos73224 жыл бұрын
God bless you guys
@jouracolon6994 жыл бұрын
😇God is good 💖
@maryoconnor25964 жыл бұрын
This is amazing.. What a great thing to with your life my brother. So much respect ❤️💛💚
@niallobrien55543 жыл бұрын
God bless from dublin Ireland marvelous people we all the same in life equal
@TomDutch5 жыл бұрын
Every time I see the CEO I feel the urge to pray for him.. he has witnessed a lot of suffering, but also God's goodness in the midst of it. Beautiful people shining their lights.. amazing job they are doing. Keep it up! God bless you all!
@anaayala40123 жыл бұрын
mr matt is good staff to urm and he kive the kinds thanks for evrthing for love marco
@sunnysideblusky4356 жыл бұрын
😭😭😭 its rare to see youth with their heart in the right place. Hes awesome. So heart soothing.
@enriquefuentes769710 жыл бұрын
This video has really open my eyes and my heart. LA is my hometown, i have gone by skid row multiple times in my child hood. I lived in Rampart and i saw the negativity of gangs and drugs at a young age but i always had a home, a bed to sleep in and i was blessed with a grandmother that made sure i didn't go down the wrong path. We struggled for years trying to make ends meet and eventually when i got old enough i tried to get a job. Things didn't work out as well as i had hoped. I now serve this country as a soldier in the US Army. Its warming to see the hope that is spread by this mission and program. LA will always be my home. Over the months i have been contemplating what i want to do with my life after my service to this country, and now its clear, i want to lend out a helping hand. Thank you for all that you do, God bless you.
@sina8925 жыл бұрын
I can see the passion in his eyes. ❤
@knucklegame50502 жыл бұрын
He's been to about 50 funerals. Sheesh, So Sad man. smh
@knucklegame50502 жыл бұрын
He's been to about 50 funerals, Sheesh. So Sad, smh
@UnionRescueMission10 жыл бұрын
WATCH: Do you wonder how kids survive living in #SkidRow? Matthew is one of reasons why kids can thrive here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYqQmqyVmbR8fLs
@KristenJanine249 жыл бұрын
Simply beautiful. I'm so blessed by your testimony Matthew. Keep doing what you are doing. God is using you to shine your light to so many who need to see Him. Blessings and love.
@flowersfam34624 жыл бұрын
Hopefully everyone on this video is doing well and has achieved their goals.💞🌺💞🌺💞🌺 Need an update on these individuals,please.
@valereirenfro90407 жыл бұрын
Wow, wished I would have grown up @ UGM. I grew up in L.A. I was never homeless but my life was rife with lots of trauma from other adults. UGM seems to provide more stability than abusive adults in a home.
@amesharlem93256 жыл бұрын
There's no way you can grow up at URM. They only allow a family to stay a few months, whether they've found a place to live or not. They don't help the families find a place to live. They make the moms feel like they aren't fit to keep their kids if they can't find a place to live. It's much darker, the reality, than what they tell outsiders.
@ms.coleman45356 жыл бұрын
@Ames Harlem What may I ask do you feel that is needed the most for those that are homeless no matter what state or city one may live in? Do you have a list of ideas?
@amesharlem93256 жыл бұрын
@@ms.coleman4535 What is needed is, they need to pinpoint the problems each head of every family is having, that is preventing them from having a place to stay. Then they need to do what they can to help the mom or dad overcome those obstacles. While I was there, they never offered me help in how to go about applying for housing assistance. They did not provide internet access, which is needed to get the information needed to get up and out of there. They expect you to go to the library with all your kids (they don't provide any child care where you can leave the building. Even when there's a an hour or two of child care, the parent isn't even allowed to go to a different floor in the building, while their child is being babysat. So how is the parent supposed to get anything done, to work towards getting a place to live?). How is a parent of several small children supposed to use a computer at a library every day, and keep their children quiet and close by? There were no laundry machines, not even coin operated ones, while I was there, so moms have to go walking with their kids along filthy streets to go do their laundry. The moms and dads spend so much time getting the simplest everyday things done, that they can barely get business and paperwork done. When you get mail, they just put it on the managers desk, out in the open, for the recipient to take when they notice it sitting there. Any dishonest person could just take it. They give parties for the kids, and all this junk for the kids to take "home" where there's no place to put it, so the moms just have to throw it away, because there's barely any storage space. We got lice when we were there. The mattreses are plastic, but are cracked, and they don't replace the ones that are cracked. They don't provide fitted sheets for the residents, they expect you to put a flat sheet on a slippery plastic old mattress, which never could stay on. I finally went and bought some fitted sheets from the Salvation Army for myself and my kids, because what they expected us to use was utterly inadequate. We weren't asking for fancy stuff, just something to cover up the horrible old mattreses! They offer to bus you back to where you came from, they pressure you to return to the creeps you fled from. Most of the parents are not good with paperwork, which is one of the reasons they are there in the first place. But do they help you understand what you need to fill out, and guide you along, till you get what you need? Nope. The upper management on the family floor is really not nice. Everyone assumes this place is run in a way that is trying to help people find a place to live, but they don't, and if you don't figure it out yourself somehow, they'll say, Well, you can't keep staying here. Your time's almost up. But they don't help you find another shelter to go to. There's no plan B. They just act like you're supposed to know how to do this stuff. It's ludicrous. They don't even tell you how to go get hotel vouchers! It's never brought up! These things are never even suggested. When I talked to the Skid Row assessment team, and they asked me what my plan was, and I told them, "Well, I was hoping to try to get housing assistance...". They shook their heads no. The housing assistance has reached saturation point here in LA county, they said. But did they say, We will help you with figuring out how to get on waiting lists that are for other counties/cities. No. They don't even say, well, we can refer you to a shelter in an area outside this area, where the benefits are not so scarce. No. They do not discuss options for you. They just say, you need to get a job. Well how do you have a job while living at a homeless shelter, what are you going to do with your kids? They make everyday life so miserable and impossible for you, and then tell you that you have to find a job. It's called the PATH program. They had me fill out a bunch of paperwork for that, and I did it perfectly, just as they told me, and they took it to process it or send it out, but I never heard back from them. I have no drug use history, I have a perfect record, so it couldn't have been anything like that, that was holding up the process. It's such a clown show in there. They're not about solutions. I don't know what they're about. But the good things about them are, they take you in, right away, unlike other shelters, which don't understand the urgency of the situation where a parent and their kids are out on the street. They give you 3 meals a day. Some of the workers are decent.
@carolmiranda28145 жыл бұрын
@@amesharlem9325 OMGG For Real? Damn I Thought They Help You Get On Ur Feet. So did u find a place after the U.R.M.??
@Billionsfan9021210 жыл бұрын
Matthew, Thanks for being such an amazing inspiration to many. Keep being the extraordinary man you are -- touching one child's life at a time. It's good to know you, brother.
@msazoyiakesemochen90965 жыл бұрын
Wow this video has really touched my heart on this morning! Not really sure how I ended up watching this but know that prayers are definitely being lifted up for the staff and the people! Prayer can do what nothing esle can.... 💝 I've never lived on Skid Row but I was homeless before & God made a way & he's the same JESUS as Yesterday!!! #Stay Encouraged your wk is not gone unknown!! God see's everything....
@MElbertStafford10 жыл бұрын
URM and Hope Gardens are amazing organizations and I'm honored and proud to work for a church that continually refers people to both. The love is needed and it sticks and swells my heart with gratitude and appreciation. #KEEPGOING
@funny3710010 жыл бұрын
Very inspirational video! Shows so much hope. I know you have down days about certain children. May God lift you up and encourage you! Amen.
@leonmane18808 жыл бұрын
you guys should ask for skateboard donations from the skate community and build an indoor diy skatepark in that gymnasium for certain hours. Skateboarding saves lives. It's an addiction in itself so it can potentially help them stray from more dangerous addictions.
@martinmartinez80016 жыл бұрын
Thats what's Sri g with peoe nowadays this video only has 12k views but stupid wifebeating mayweather at the Gucci store has 12 million. Views people nowadays have no compassion quick to judge at o e point in our life we all need a lol break or help
@baby_cowboytmc95615 жыл бұрын
why it took me 5 years to realized that i was in this video MAINLY eating in most of the parts in the cool video wearing purple.....boy i was dope back then!
@eliascandelas8392 жыл бұрын
El topo g I live street g like bum allway had family be stong live in street strong-minded or the street eat u alive good place called United rescue mission save life's g never been there see it on u2
@TRUMP-oo5uy5 жыл бұрын
Why are u showing these mexican kids were are R black kids / R white kids ...
@YoYo-bb4nh4 жыл бұрын
For everybody who need help and still need the mercy of God for time and eternity both; Turn your way to God for more help guys. Stop addiction if you have one. Never do prostitution, do never abortion, it is murder. Read the Holy Bible for answers and consolatian, the New Testament in it for the Gospel. Go to church, ask there for shelter included some work for money. Pray God for forgiveniss of your sins through the powerful work of His Son Jesus Christ. Amen. Pray and work! Best to you all.