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# We can’t cure the world’s ills
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/we-cant-cure-the-worlds-ills-editor/
- Published: 2007-04-04T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:22:07.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless, Homelessness

*By Kengi Kat Santa Monica*

Last week, the OPCC (was featured in an) article in the Santa Monica Daily Press (“OPCC helps Israel combat homelessness,” March 27). The article was basically a campaign to show the general readers of the paper how great the OPCC is and all they do for homeless people. The article was about OPCC going to Israel to “combat” homeless issues in that country. I was so upset by this, for many reasons. The main two are the fact that there is a huge homeless program right here in the country, so why go to Israel to help out over there? Isn’t there enough for the OPCC to do here in this country? I mean come on, what was this trip really about? Was it truly about helping homeless people in other countries or was it about funding?

Since (Staff Writer Kevin Herrera )won’t ask this question, I will.

It is very clear that the OPCC doesn’t do that great of a job fixing the homeless situation here in this country, let alone right here in the city of Santa Monica. So why was money spent to take a trip to Israel to help the homeless there? Doesn’t the OPCC, its staff and director see the vast number of homeless people sleeping outside their locked gates every single night? Do they not see the large amount of homeless people lining up for services they say they offer daily? With the huge homeless population right here in Santa Monica, how does the OPCC manage to take time out for what is nothing more then a trick to get people to think they are doing such a great job with the homeless situation right here in Santa Monica. This was nothing more then a way to get people to give money. It is clear that the Santa Monica Daily Press is part of this campaign to hoodwink the public on the homeless issue.

If, in fact, (OPCC is) doing so much for homeless right here in Santa Monica, why then does the homeless population here in Santa Monica say otherwise?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 4, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/040407.pdf?ref=smdp.com)