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A case for the homeless
Dear Editor,
During the third year of secondary school our class was assigned into different groups and asked to list some causes for poverty.
This task required us to interview a few persons living under unfavourable conditions and deduced their situation.
Our first interviewee was a mother of three children, found sitting on the pavement of Regent Street. She related to us her distressing story which I will convey.
A walk through any of the streets of Georgetown you are sure to notice the beggars and indigent ones sleeping alongside the roads in our country. These people’s sufferings have various causes. That of the lady mention earlier was begging on the street because she had no place to sleep, no money and a job.
Once she was offered a job cleaning trenches but was not physically capable of such a task. So she resorted to begging once again. “Taking up residence at a homeless shelter was just not right”, I’m neither a crazy person nor a drug addict like the majority that they cram into those shelters”, she said.
Relocation programmes to find the relatives of the homeless are hopeless. They are forsaken and unloved. Isn’t that obvious to any smart person? No one wants to help them in any way or else they would not be where they are.
Shelters should home deserted ones under their circumstances of poverty, not drug users and demented individual also. Other rehabilitation systems should be put in place for them.
The move by government to construct a homestead for the homeless is wise, however the term “homeless” should be the case of those sensible ones who were stroke with better-bad luck.
Terry Bastian
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