Check this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogares_CREAThese poor people in Costa Rica don't sell much door to door from what I see.They stand on street corners wearing T-shirts with large letters HOGARES CREA and underneath which center they're in.They wave cans at traffic lights as a form to pay for their own recovery(whatever that is).Most of these people are either close to/or living on the street before they check in,so some kind of intervention is called for.What irks me is this program either reduces them to live as beggars or makes them to continue to do so if that's how they were living before they checked themselves in.I always thought that a benevolent treatment facility would seek to harbor and instill dignity rather that humilliate and degrade a resident to begging for change from drivers at traffic lights.Another possible coincidence.....The Sembler Companies have an office in Puerto Rico.
