Whats up with Hogar Crea?

[Mayfair]

For what I swear has been at least the last 3 months, I've been seeing these guys wearing Hogar Crea tee shirts trying to collect money on all 4 corners at Bustleton and Cottman. They're there at least once a week, sometimes more.

For the last couple of days, I've seen them not only at the Bustleton spot, but also now collecting at Cottman and the boulevard.

Since these guys look kinda shady, and there's no signage at all telling you what Hogar Crea is, I looked them up. Apparently it's some non government funded drug rehab place with the closest one being on E. Cumberland st.

Hogar CREA Philadelphia
2018 East Cumberland Street
Philadelphia, PA 19605
Tel: (215) 739-1479
Fx: (215) 739-1558

Hogares CREA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pennsylvania

Anyone ever hear of them before?

Why are they here?

[Mayfair101]

For what I swear has been at least the last 3 months, I've been seeing these guys wearing Hogar Crea tee shirts trying to collect money on all 4 corners at Bustleton and Cottman. They're there at least once a week, sometimes more.

For the last couple of days, I've seen them not only at the Bustleton spot, but also now collecting at Cottman and the boulevard.

Since these guys look kinda shady, and there's no signage at all telling you what Hogar Crea is, I looked them up. Apparently it's some non government funded drug rehab place with the closest one being on E. Cumberland st.

Hogar CREA Philadelphia
2018 East Cumberland Street
Philadelphia, PA 19605
Tel: (215) 739-1479
Fx: (215) 739-1558

Hogares CREA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pennsylvania

Anyone ever hear of them before?

Why are they here?

They have been at the Cottman and boulevard coner for at least a year.
They are annoying as all hell...sometimes they stand at your window and make sad faces at you...they are sad because they cant go buy their drugs with my money....Id rather see a local legitimate non profit stand there 7 days a week making money..even the dudes selling the bracelets for breast cancer there too...they arent donating anything to cancer....they are making a living!

[Polar Cub]

What kills me is, their cars all have Delaware plates. I never give those guys anything. Even when they come up to your car window and shake the bucket at you.
I'd rather give it to the one-legged guy, or the junkie with the sunburn, on the Blvd.
They've been there (Blvd) for years. Bustleton is newer.

[ras]

I used to see them at front & allegheny with small pies,I thought you got a pie for your donation.I never donated,like the Op said they didn't look legit.

[Seanibus]

Seems they are a real organization, but they have run into some problems with the state, the details of which are not obvious from the link:

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal...crevoc0607_pdf

[Mayfair]

They are annoying as all hell...sometimes they stand at your window and make sad faces at you

That's what happened today, and that's what prompted me to look them up. I had no idea what Hogar Crea was. Judging by the guy's collecting and the tee shirts they were wearing, I thought they were out of work roofers or something.

[Babynickie]

All of you people on here are very ignorant. Hogar Crea is a rehab for people trying to get help. Those men collecting money are collecting it for the rehab, not for anything "shady". Those little pies are called flans, they sell them to raise money for the homes. Those rehabs are like halfway houses and help the men recover. The Hogar Crea in Delaware helped my bestfriend and cousin get clean off of many drugs, and I could never thank them enough. Don't judge anything, before you you know what it's really about. All these negative comments make me sick. It isn't a scam at all, and it goes to the rehab.

[Polar Cub]

You dug up a two year old thread to post your one and only comment here, calling us ignorant ?

[sharkey]

Why is it our responsibility to fund their drug rehab? What's more, why would Phila. pay for a drug rehab in Delaware? Why don't they have a name that is in English---you'd think that might be a first step to people at least understanding what they are. The City of Phila. should ban begging for money at traffic lights as a safety hazard. In my neighborhood, as soon as the weather turns warm there are hoardes of people teaching their kids that the way to fund their recreational activities (marching bands, basketball teams) is to go beg strangers for their money. I see kids 7 or 8 years old darting around cars to beg for donations.

[Dayman]

What kills me is, their cars all have Delaware plates. I never give those guys anything. Even when they come up to your car window and shake the bucket at you.
I'd rather give it to the one-legged guy, or the junkie with the sunburn, on the Blvd.
They've been there (Blvd) for years. Bustleton is newer.

Their HQ is in Wilmington, I pass it when I head back from doing Coast Guard Aux stuff at the SARDET there.

[Bixbyte]

Why is it our responsibility to fund their drug rehab? What's more, why would Phila. pay for a drug rehab in Delaware? Why don't they have a name that is in English---you'd think that might be a first step to people at least understanding what they are. The City of Phila. should ban begging for money at traffic lights as a safety hazard. In my neighborhood, as soon as the weather turns warm there are hoardes of people teaching their kids that the way to fund their recreational activities (marching bands, basketball teams) is to go beg strangers for their money. I see kids 7 or 8 years old darting around cars to beg for donations.

I make sure that when I donate to a good cause that the money is used in my neighborhood.
Like the Girl scouts selling cookies at Acme.
I only buy the cookies from the Scouts that are located in NE Philly Acme markets.
Sure there are a couple bums on Roosevelt Blvd and they live near my neighborhood.
The bum at the Bells Corner Market.
Sounds silly but there are Bums in NE Philly.
Why should I fund people or Bums in areas like Neshaminy or Abington?
I always Make sure my donations stay within my neighborhood.
I use to donate to disabled VETS and American Indians but now I believe Charity begins at home.