Homelessness is one of the major problems faced by many countries, others are homeless due to unfortunate situations hence it takes a lot of courage and strength to be a homeless person given that it is not a choice most of the time.
Firstly the number of homeless people worldwide is estimated to be between 100 million to 1 billion, depending on how we count them and definition used (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08d04e5274a27b2001595/R7905.pdf). The word ‘homelessness’ means not having access to a regular place of living. Homeless people do not have the means to obtain secure housing as their basic need, another way to look at this is that this is a state of living where by someone does not have adequate housing as a place …show more content…
You get people that create a false identity of charities for the homeless all to make a fraudulent business. But the worst is this, someone waits at a controlled intersection and comes by your window, being so used to seeing this I don’t even wait to lower my window so I reach out of my coins section and give me as much as I can or give him an apple but knowing that I could have given him more but this time around I was not hesitant so I put 10 dollars depressing looking hands and the joy that came here was magical. To me I felt like what I had given him was too little but as I said earlier something that is small to you is huge to him so I drove away feeling good and not noticing the fraud behind it. Weirdly I drove back past the same intersection but his time coming in the opposite direction and to my right there a deserted playground and to my dismay there he was playing joyfully without his crutches which he had a couple of hours earlier. As much as I wanted to approach him and as why he does that to someone who is trying to help, I held back knowing I probably was not the first or the last, this then further emphasises my point about whether giving with an open heart is worth it anymore or not. One may think that his ecstatic smile just as I gave him the ten dollars was all practiced and I had fallen prey to his tricks or even worse maybe his parents have taught him
Firstly the number of homeless people worldwide is estimated to be between 100 million to 1 billion, depending on how we count them and definition used (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08d04e5274a27b2001595/R7905.pdf). The word ‘homelessness’ means not having access to a regular place of living. Homeless people do not have the means to obtain secure housing as their basic need, another way to look at this is that this is a state of living where by someone does not have adequate housing as a place …show more content…
You get people that create a false identity of charities for the homeless all to make a fraudulent business. But the worst is this, someone waits at a controlled intersection and comes by your window, being so used to seeing this I don’t even wait to lower my window so I reach out of my coins section and give me as much as I can or give him an apple but knowing that I could have given him more but this time around I was not hesitant so I put 10 dollars depressing looking hands and the joy that came here was magical. To me I felt like what I had given him was too little but as I said earlier something that is small to you is huge to him so I drove away feeling good and not noticing the fraud behind it. Weirdly I drove back past the same intersection but his time coming in the opposite direction and to my right there a deserted playground and to my dismay there he was playing joyfully without his crutches which he had a couple of hours earlier. As much as I wanted to approach him and as why he does that to someone who is trying to help, I held back knowing I probably was not the first or the last, this then further emphasises my point about whether giving with an open heart is worth it anymore or not. One may think that his ecstatic smile just as I gave him the ten dollars was all practiced and I had fallen prey to his tricks or even worse maybe his parents have taught him