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WEBVTT STREET ANGELS WHO HOPE TO SAVELIVES.>> IF ANYBODY IS THERE, DO YOUWANT TO GO TO A SHELTER?>> WE'RE NEAR FIRST AND CHASE ONTHE BANKS OF THE K.K. RIVER. >> ARE YOU WARM ENOUGH?>> THE TEMPERATURE IS HOVERINGJUST ABOVE ZERO.>> YOU STAY WARM AND WE WILL BEBACK TO CHECK ON YOU.>> AND STREET ANGELS IS TRYINGTO CONVINCE THE MAN LIVING UNDERTHIS TARP TO COME TO A SHELTER.>> BYE DAVE.STAY WARM.I HOPE YOU HAD A MERRYCHRISTMAS.>> DEMAND DECLINED THE OFFER.>> WHEN WE FOUND HIM HE WAS NOTENT, NO TARP, NO BLANKET,WRAPPED IN PLASTIC, SO WE JUSTCONTINUE TO CHECK ON HIM ASOFTEN AS WE CAN AND BRING HIMANYTHING WE CAN THINK OF TO KEEPHIM WARM.>> AND THAT'S HOW IT GOES SOMENIGHTS FOR EVA WELCH, SHE'S THECO-FOUNDER OF STREET ANGELS, ANORGANIZATION DEDICATED TOGETTING THE HOMELESS OFF THESTREETS.>> MILWAUKEE'S HOMELESSPOPULATION IS AMONG THE MOSTLOVED AND CARED FOR IN THECOUNTRY.>> THEY PICK UP THE HOMELESS INTHIS WHITE BUS THREE NIGHTS AWEEK.>> >> SO WHEN YOU'RE SEEINGSOMEONE THREE NIGHTS A WEEK FORSIX MONTHS, TWO YEARS, YOU STARTTO CREATE THESE BONDS.>> EVA DOES THE DRIVING, WHILECO FOUNDER SHELLY SARASINCOORDINATE THE PICKUPS.>> THERE MY ANGELS, EVERYTHING.>> THEY'RE MY ANGELS.SHE IS RIGHT, YES.>> IT'S THEN BACK TO ASCENSIONLUTERHAN CHURCH NEAR GREENFIELDAND LAYTON.HERE, EVERYONE GETS A HOT MEALAND A WARM PLACE TO SLEEP.

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Three nights a week, Eva Welch and Shelly Sarasin drive around Milwaukee in a big white bus. They’re hoping to bring homeless people to a shelter."So when you’re seeing someone three nights a week for six months or two years, you start to create these bonds," Welch said.On Tuesday night, the temperature was hovering just above zero and they were busy making their rounds."They are standing outside depending on you to bring them something to eat so it's very, very motivating," Welch said.Three years ago, Welch and Sarasin co-founded Street Angels. The organization is dedicated to helping the homeless by doing whatever they can: buying them a meal, passing out clothes, or driving them to a shelter. "We have zero agenda, other than helping people," Welch said. "Milwaukee's homeless population is among the most loved and cared for in the country."The group found a homeless man living under a plastic tarp near First and Chase along the banks of the Kinnickinic River. They offered to take him to Ascension Lutheran Church for shelter, but he declined."He is more comfortable out here," Welch said. "I think he has social anxiety and that doesn’t allow him to do those types of things, so we just continue to check on him as often as we can and bring him anything we can think of to keep him warm."But countless others count on their compassion. "They’re my angels. They’re everything," said Jacob Richie, who has been living on the streets for five years. For Welch and Sarasin, the feeling is mutual."And we have come to care for them just like you would care for any other friend or family member."Check out Street Angels on Facebook or at www.streetangelsmke.org.