Surviving the streets

Rochell Battle

Professor Warren

ENC1102

19March2013

Surviving the Streets

                Life is not easy. We are in a surviving mode every day. There are many people living on the street looking for a way out. People are looking for clothes, food and other surviving products to make it through the day. There are many homeless shelters available for people living on the streets. These programs help with food, clothes and other personal items. People are donating items to help support the homeless organizations. When a person is homeless and in the streets, there are many obstacles they come in contact with such as drugs, violence, sexual abuse and other serious act of violence.

 There were a census report done on the children on the street in all nine districts of Delhi in 2010,  they found out that there are around 51,000 street children in Delhi (20% are girls; dalit represent 36% and adivasi 17%); 70% fend for themselves on the street despite having a home in Delhi; 50.5% are illiterate; 87% earn a living (20% as ragpickers, 15.8% as street vendors, 15% by begging); Over 50% have suffered verbal, physical or sexual abuse; Fewer than 20% have ID cards or birth certificates, so they miss out on government schemes (Bhaskaran & Mehta, 2010) .   

There were over 96 million people wasting food in 2010 according to a movie called Dive. Many people is going around and looking for food. There are homeless people everywhere.  People do not realize that other foreign counties have starving children and they are dying for the lack of food. We take a lot of stuff for granted because we have new shoes, clothes and a roof over our heads.   I hate seeing people like this. When I was young I used to talk about them and laugh because they used to look dirty. As I got older, I realized why they like that. I never want to be like this in my life. I question myself a lot. How can they let themselves get in this situation? Growing up with my parents, I use to want to through away food and my parents taught me how to save food. We had many leftovers after meals and we would put them up for the next day. My daddy always said he didn’t like to eat leftovers. 

            While watching the movie, it really made me sadden and almost in tears. By looking at homeless people, I wanted to help them out more. When I’m riding around town, I see people sleep everywhere also I see people digging in the trash cans for food. By watching people on the streets, It makes me want to start saving and trying to open up a community shelter. That’s mean that anytime they need food or need a place to stay they can come and just sign in to get the necessary help needed.     

            Meeting people at their needs are very important because everybody have needs. In order to help support the homeless and others out in the streets, it takes a community, families, churches and other faith- based organization to help with providing shelter, support not only in giving food but having programs set up to help the hopeless get out of this rut they are in. The whole society need to come together as one body (Grabham, 2013). I know that we can’t when them all but we can’t give up trying to help save someone life. The homeless is hungry for that love and affection. We have to show them a better way to survive.

            When I look at the phase “Surviving on the Streets”, it gives me an outlook on life and where I could have been if it was not for the Lord on my side. Overall, people did not asked to be that way but it is God way of life. One day we are up and the other day we could be down. It is not good to pick on a person lively hood because one day it just might be you. We will not give up until we reach every person living on the streets. One day at a time, and one person at a time, we will make it through this trail and tribulation this world is up against.  I really pray that I won’t ever get like this because it is serious in these days in life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

   Bhaskaran, R & Mehta, B, 2011. Surviving the streets: save the children.

   Grabham, M.2013. http://www.survivethestreets.org/

  Stiegel,2013 Movie Dive.