homeless people

HappyMJ

stranger12 wrote: »

What would you do if you see them next, buying food and cloth?

The guy is next to my work so tomorrow will get him some stuff

Your best course of action is to speak to the homeless charities in the area and ask if they are aware of him. They'll advise him of the help that is available to him. They can provide emergency food parcels and clothing.


The charity that helps homeless people in my area is called Reconnect. I would go there and see how you can help. Helping one person directly might seem the right thing to do but it usually isn't.

aaroncaz

tomtontom wrote: »

Why do you think most homeless people will blow their money on drink and drugs? Genuine question, I wonder where this stereotype is coming from.

Is it a stereotype? I have just shown examples of how the money could be blown, and I do have a little experience of being homeless for a short while many years ago...........for someone on the streets to be able to manage their money must be very difficult. If not those issues then mental health issues can play a part.

Glen_Clark

When you are comfortably off you can plan for your future, stop smoking, eat healthy etc. I think when you are homeless you are just preoccupied with getting through the next few hours - and you feel so awful you are more likely to want drugs to get through it - escapism.

Teahfc

Is this thread not more suited to the discussion board ?

Charityworker

Some of them don't want to work. I recently befriended a homeless man who was a busker. He sings Nirvana songs and sounds really like Kurt Cobain. I'm an event organiser so I offered to get him some gigs. Some pubs in the area said yes to him. He suddenly went from someone who was keen to not being interested once I actually got the gigs for him. Why would they want to work when they are kipping rent free on a friends sofa, getting benefit money for doing nothing every week, getting a free fry up breakfast every day from a drop in centre in town, getting a free cooked lunch and dessert from the Salvation Army every day in this town. They're on a better income than most people. No wonder they don't want to work.

Gleeful

Charityworker wrote: »

Some of them don't want to work. I recently befriended a homeless man who was a busker. He sings Nirvana songs and sounds really like Kurt Cobain. I'm an event organiser so I offered to get him some gigs. Some pubs in the area said yes to him. He suddenly went from someone who was keen to not being interested once I actually got the gigs for him. Why would they want to work when they are kipping rent free on a friends sofa, getting benefit money for doing nothing every week, getting a free fry up breakfast every day from a drop in centre in town, getting a free cooked lunch and dessert from the Salvation Army every day in this town. They're on a better income than most people. No wonder they don't want to work.

It could be that he didn't have the confidence to be on the stage. You don't know the real reason. Worrying that someone who claims to be a 'charityworker' has such a lack of empathy

Charityworker

Gleeful wrote: »

It could be that he didn't have the confidence to be on the stage. You don't know the real reason. Worrying that someone who claims to be a 'charityworker' has such a lack of empathy

Im not a charity worker any more. After 20 years I gave up as you can't help people who don't want to help themselves. Thankyou for your concern.

missbiggles1

stranger12 wrote: »

why living on street makes it difficult ?

I know people who move here as asylum seeker and don't intentionally work as many of you might know about . They sit at home all day and their rent and expenses is paid.

so why someone like that can get it and not a homeless person.

almost anyone can get JSA so a homeless if willing to work will be given the payment in my view.

I wasn't 100% sure hence the reason for the post

Asylum seekers aren't allowed to work.

Takeaway_Addict

stranger12 wrote: »

hi guys,

I have seem some homeless people which I feel really bad for .

Last time in 2011, I got the guy some duvet, money etc and spend an entire night calling shelters so someone could pick him up as it was cold. He ran away and called me later saying " his mate has a prepaid meter and told him if he can get some money, he can go there"

I gave few some money and there he disappeared for ever.

This made me think homeless people want to live like how they do now. they are addicted to alcohol and don't want to work/ apply for benefit as short term support.

tonight, I saw another old man which was aged around 60ish . felt bad for him and got him some food and shoes . he was saying because he is single man government doesn't help him etc.

are these statements correct ?

I know so many people on benefit and surprised why such homeless people get nothing from government if they really need it .

thanks

Don't you think he scammed you?

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I believe these people are homeless for a reason.., and get used to that way of life, the reasons they are there initially may cause fear of a repeat of that helplessness and all the other feeling that are very negative.., so its difficult to help someone like that.

I can't understand how, what, why because I'm not homeless. I should imagine its the same as helping someone suffering domestic abuse, you just have to keep helping and hope that one of these attempts, one day, will stick.

But the judgements we see on here make me sick. So many people who are for example living from paycheck to paycheck are just a couple of steps away from being helpless.

When I was a nurse, I will never forget one young man, about 18 who was homeless, with a broken leg and was going to go back on the streets once discharged. I tried to help him, and yep, he didn't like it, even though he was desperate for a hostel place to go to rather than back on the streets. The normal rules just don't apply for someone like this. And unfortunately, its hard to have any belief in things getting better when they just get worse and you have to sleep in the cold and damp and be cursed by people who don't even look at you long enough to see your face.

WHO in their right mind would risk dying because of the cold? Only people who can't, for one reason or another, care for themselves and probably don't know how to begin dealing with 'normal' society.