#rough sleepers

[wensdaiambrose]

A few things to keep in mind when donating to a foodshelf.

I've absolutely had times in my life where my family survived because of food that was donated.

This list rings true.

Thanks for reading, and please donate to your local foodshelf if you can ❤️

[ryukisgod]

MRA: homelessness affects men more than women.

Me: so your pro universal public housing?

MRA: no.

[sleepydrummer]

Somber Slumber, 1958 Paris, France Gérard Castello-Lopes

crédit: P4 Photography

[generalelectionmusings]

‘Tragedy in the making’ due to lack of help for rough sleepers during lockdown, charities warn

Ministers urged to re-introduce Everyone In scheme, which housed thousands at start of pandemic

[jerseydeanne]

Remember this is a global fight! WWG1WGA – Nigel Farage

[pointless-letters]

You....you want homeless people to sleep in lorry containers? Those big, metal, unheated things with no ventilation or lights or toilets or running water?

[ofpaperandponies]

How To Run A Street Cafe

Exeter Food Fight is a street cafe created by a selection of activists within Exeter, of which I was part of. It has been running for nearly two years and currently runs on Saturdays and Sundays in…

I’m so proud of my best friend for working so hard on this even when he was super down during his undergraduate degree <3 He is Good People

[skeletonmug]

I was watching a weather report and worrying about friends who are camping and LARPing this weekend when it’s going to be -6C then I got the sickest feeling in my gut these guys are LARPing. If it gets to much they can get in a car and drive home. The have access to a scout hut then can sleep in if necessary and loads of food and hot drinks.

What about the people out there, within half a mile of my own house who are sleeping rough and fighting to get in to over crowded shelters. They have no escape from it other than drinking enough or shooting up and hoping they don’t feel a thing.

And there is nothing I can do for them. 

Sure I’ve given money to the local charities. I give my loose change to people begging. But there is nothing I can do. I can’t leave my house right now. I can’t physically go and pick people up and bring them home and feed them and keep them warm.  

And that is awful. And even if I did somehow find a way to rescue even one street sleeper tonight it wouldn’t fix the problem. They wouldn’t suddenly have somewhere to live, the support to get clean and find a job and build a life. It wouldn’t extend to every homeless person in the country.

There is just so much to do and we are struggling with even the emergency response of getting people in to emergency shelters. We don’t even have sticking plaster solution: if we want to use the first aid analogy then we are barely managing to hold a filthy rag to a bleeding wound. 

This is Shelter a UK-wide homeless charity

Crisis is a UK-wide homeless charity

Emmaus is another 

All of the above are involved in lobbying as well as long term and emergency support for people who are homeless.

St George’s Crypt is my local homeless charity (Leeds)

Streetlink is a nation wide organisation that helps get rough sleepers in to a shelter or emergency accommodation. They have an app you can download to alert them if you see somebody sleeping rough so that they can send a local team to help them find a bed.