Homeless On Campus
Flipping through the pages of my literature book, I noticed an article that read, “Homeless on Campus” by Eleanor J Bader, a freelance writer and an instructor in the English department at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. After reading the title, I thought to myself, how could this be? A student just like me being homeless and not receiving federal financial help. How is this? Then I continued to read. The article was written on a twenty-year old student at Kingsborough Community College. Aesha was her name. She was doing good until the fall of 2003, when she started being abused by her boyfriend, while living in a three-bedroom South Bronx apartment with her son and four other family members. She soon realized that enough was enough. Aesha and her son escaped from their apartment.
Thirty days in a temporary shelter, the two landed at the city’s emergency assistance …show more content…
Adriana Broadway was one of those three students, she lived in ten different places with ten different families in high school. Broadway is a native of Sparks, Nevada. “I’d stay with whoever would take me in and allow me to live under their roof.” Adriana left home at the age of thirteen. She wasn’t the only one living in the streets in their early teens. Johnny Montgomery, also lived in the streets at a young age. He was homeless because his mother threw him out over her boyfriend since he and him didn’t get along. “She chose him over me.”, he stated. Students was just homeless in the United States, but in other countries as well. Asad Dahir says, “I’ve been homeless more than one time and in more than one country.” Dahir was originally from Somalia, who then fled his homeland due to civil war and ended up in a refugee camp in Kenya. These three students were very lucky to receive that scholarship on the behalf of
Flipping through the pages of my literature book, I noticed an article that read, “Homeless on Campus” by Eleanor J Bader, a freelance writer and an instructor in the English department at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. After reading the title, I thought to myself, how could this be? A student just like me being homeless and not receiving federal financial help. How is this? Then I continued to read. The article was written on a twenty-year old student at Kingsborough Community College. Aesha was her name. She was doing good until the fall of 2003, when she started being abused by her boyfriend, while living in a three-bedroom South Bronx apartment with her son and four other family members. She soon realized that enough was enough. Aesha and her son escaped from their apartment.
Thirty days in a temporary shelter, the two landed at the city’s emergency assistance …show more content…
Adriana Broadway was one of those three students, she lived in ten different places with ten different families in high school. Broadway is a native of Sparks, Nevada. “I’d stay with whoever would take me in and allow me to live under their roof.” Adriana left home at the age of thirteen. She wasn’t the only one living in the streets in their early teens. Johnny Montgomery, also lived in the streets at a young age. He was homeless because his mother threw him out over her boyfriend since he and him didn’t get along. “She chose him over me.”, he stated. Students was just homeless in the United States, but in other countries as well. Asad Dahir says, “I’ve been homeless more than one time and in more than one country.” Dahir was originally from Somalia, who then fled his homeland due to civil war and ended up in a refugee camp in Kenya. These three students were very lucky to receive that scholarship on the behalf of