Skint
Earlier in the year my daughter Hayley and I really got hooked on this TV programme about people living in poverty in the UK. It was not that we enjoyed watching other people's misery but that the characters in this brilliant documentary were so wonderful.
Yesterday I bought my Big Issue and noticed that there is a new series starting on Monday on BBC 1 at 10.45pm Don't miss it.
The Big Issue article about the series points out that whilst there are less people sleeping on the streets than there were ten years ago there are still 100,ooo people who are moving endlessly between hostels, B&B's and sofa surfing friends houses. They have a roof most nights but no security, stability and are often forced to live in very difficult conditions among sometimes dangerous people.
I know that this is true I hear the stories from prisoners most weeks.
For example there is Dave(not his real name) who having suffered abuse from his family as a child ended up with a speech impediment. He left home to escape but found it difficult to form friendships because of his lack of social skills. Through loneliness he got into a drinking culture with his work mates. He couldn't handle this and when drunk and overwhelmed by the memories of his past he got angry and committed an act of vandalism. On release from detention he was sent to a bail hostel where he was introduced to speed and ecstacy. He is now once again a guest of her majesty. On release he will probably have to go to another hostel with other people with a drink problems or addiction. Will he cope? Will he reoffend? What do you think?
The Big Issue ends its article by saying that the solution to homelessness is never just a roof over someones head but addressing the problems that got them there in the first place. How right that is.
God bless
Carol
Earlier in the year my daughter Hayley and I really got hooked on this TV programme about people living in poverty in the UK. It was not that we enjoyed watching other people's misery but that the characters in this brilliant documentary were so wonderful.
Yesterday I bought my Big Issue and noticed that there is a new series starting on Monday on BBC 1 at 10.45pm Don't miss it.
The Big Issue article about the series points out that whilst there are less people sleeping on the streets than there were ten years ago there are still 100,ooo people who are moving endlessly between hostels, B&B's and sofa surfing friends houses. They have a roof most nights but no security, stability and are often forced to live in very difficult conditions among sometimes dangerous people.
I know that this is true I hear the stories from prisoners most weeks.
For example there is Dave(not his real name) who having suffered abuse from his family as a child ended up with a speech impediment. He left home to escape but found it difficult to form friendships because of his lack of social skills. Through loneliness he got into a drinking culture with his work mates. He couldn't handle this and when drunk and overwhelmed by the memories of his past he got angry and committed an act of vandalism. On release from detention he was sent to a bail hostel where he was introduced to speed and ecstacy. He is now once again a guest of her majesty. On release he will probably have to go to another hostel with other people with a drink problems or addiction. Will he cope? Will he reoffend? What do you think?
The Big Issue ends its article by saying that the solution to homelessness is never just a roof over someones head but addressing the problems that got them there in the first place. How right that is.
God bless
Carol
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