A new model of charity seeks to encourage communities at homeless camps to organize internal votes

Portland, Oregon, United States – When Marge Pettitt’s seven-year-old daughter broke down in tears in a homeless shelter in 2009, she made one of the hardest decisions of her life: Sending the child to live with her father, who had married another woman and moved into her apartment. Marge, a 59-year-old with short greying hair and…