It’s one step at a time for New Bedford’s homeless
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- Every year on a randomly selected winter day, New Bedford counts its homeless population. In 2022, the city recorded a one-day total of 370 individuals either in shelters or living on the street. Preliminary data from this year’s census reveal numbers not seen in more than a decade. On Jan. 25, counting just those living on the streets, surveyors found 65 unsheltered homeless battling low temperatures in the mid-20s. Multimedia reporter Eleonora Bianchi brings some of their stories to light in interviews with both sheltered and unsheltered people. What she found was some of the most vulnerable among us, battling neglect, addiction, abuse, stigma and hopelessness. What she found in the people and organizations trying to help the homeless was compassion and dedication in the face of daily obstacles. As Steppingstone Project Coordinator Danielle Brown says, “Everybody has the right to be treated fairly and with decency and have a roof over their head. … Our circumstances do not make us who we are. I believe in letting people know that they’re important no matter what.”
Sad to see comments on here, no compassion for people who are broken. No one knows everyone's story, and how they got to be that way. Until you have been down that road, no one should judge! Not everyone has strength to pick themselves up, as human beings we should help another human when they are weak. Maybe you have never been homeless and made your own way, but your child may not be so strong and they could find themselves out on the streets. Before you look down on someone else, look at them as someone's Mother or Father, son or daughter or sister or brother. 🤔💔🙏
The woman in the video who works for Steppingstone, Inc., is Danielle Brown. She is amazing. She makes things happen.
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Never lose hope! You are here for a reason and keep talking, asking because someone out here will listen, someone will hear you.. My thoughts and prayers for anyone who is walking in these shoes, I know I was there once.. Keep moving forward and have faith, 🙏 God has not forgotten about you...
I was raised in NB, there are good people in NB. It’s not easy. You’re alone, and single so holding on to a job is not enough in this economy, families grow apart. A college degree is not even guarantee for you to make it anymore., you need more than one income. Cost of living, is not sustainable, you cant even say it was drugs or alcoholism that cobtributed to being joblessness or homelessness. It’s a combination if everything. It’s the system and it’s broken.
Thank you for showing this film. Gives homeless a voice. There are so many causes for homelessness. More now because of the high rents and a broken social service system. More elderly homeless to. Many help & do good work helping the poor. I helped in a shelter during the 2015 snowstorms and at Mercy Meals. What an education and eye opener ! I pray everyday!!!
Very sad
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Ever noticed how a drug addict works very hard at getting their drug and getting their high? Theyll sacrifice anything and everything for it. But solving their other problems its too hard.
be lucky you didn't grow up in their shoes. do you know that adhd medication they give to children predisposes them to drug abuse? it literally changes the brain to need it for survival. s-u-r-v-i-v-a-l.
That is why they are addicts, they have no concept of moderation or constraint. Most of these people are OK when they are in a structured environment but once they get into the "real" world they need a Safety Net. Good luck to anybody that is battling addiction and trying to turn themselves around, very brave thing.
Not all druggys
Not all druggys
I couldn’t imagine
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