At the moment I'm not involved with any group of volunteers, but I was a volunteer at a homeless reach out group for almost a year up until a couple months ago.

We would walk around a spot known for housing a lot of homeless people in the city and "door knock" until we met somebody who wanted to talk with us. It was very interesting, I had a lot of fun and we were more or less successful in helping our regulars get a step up. It being a new job, health check ups or getting them in contact with some social workers for some tricky situations (irregular immigration status).

We stopped because most of the regulars left and we lost contact over the winter. The group I was in also started fading due to all of us being students unable to find a compatible schedule. Some times I feel remorse in not continuing, I might have to try to find the contact of one of our oldest regulars and check up on how he is doing in his new home.

P.S.: One of the regulars Mr "Zé" would tell us all about his petty crime days in Paris, when he was a teen. He was a troubled man, even today, but very fun and kind within his means.