Homeless need your help: Being elderly and homeless Please use these stories to demand more from your municipality. YOU need to be the voice of the vulnerable and disenfranchised. Contributor Friday, 09 April 2021, 09:01 Deirdre (74) tells her life story and explains why she ended up at the George Night Shelter in her old age.
GEORGE NEWS - Dear George Community and George Municipality, the Homeless need your help.
Are you sure that you have enough savings for your retirement? How sure are you that your children will take care of you in tough times? Sometimes life takes a turn, maybe a nasty divorce, and all of a sudden you are alone with little to nothing to your name, rapidly heading towards homelessness in your old age.
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Narratives from a Medical student Friday, 12 March 2021, 08:01 Johan (58) has been living on the street for most of his life, starting in childhood when he was removed from his adopted family who abused him. Update
GEORGE NEWS - Dear George Community and George Municipality, the Homeless need your help. In 2020, as part of a community project in my last year of medicine, I listened to the stories of eight homeless people in George.
I then used these narratives as a base to research homelessness within a national and international context. The goal of the project was to understand the unique needs of the homeless and to help give them a voice.
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GEORGE NEWS - Dear George Community and George Municipality, the Homeless need your help.
Last year, as a final year medical student, I did a community project where I listened to the stories of the homeless in George in order to understand their needs and to help give them a voice.
I am now taking the opportunity to share with the community what I have learnt in order to stimulate an understanding of the complexity of homelessness and hopefully to grow support from the municipality.
It is important to realise that homelessness is not simply the result of poverty, but has multiple factors that come into play, including alcohol and drug use, domestic abuse, and family conflict. All of these issues need to be addressed in order to really curb the increasing numbers of homeless people.
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