how the homeless in foreign nations looked…
From the Front Page Sections, translated…
Awhile ago, the UDN papers reported on how the locals at Wanhua had, chased out the homeless in their community, it’d touched me deeply.
The actions of those store owners, those residents were, originally, warranted, because nobody wants there to be those who are dirty, smelled, and immobilized in their living places. But, as life took a wrong turn, and the individuals became homeless, there surely, is something humanitarian that needed to be done, they’d needed assistance, instead of getting chased out of where they were living, the Social Services Department should set up placement centers, to protect their rights to be alive.
The writer of this article is living in Toronto, Canada, and had attended the church locally for Taiwanese people, and for multiple years on end, got involved in the Wednesdays of the winter months, to get involved in the “out of the cold” activities, to help the homeless in the region; called out the ladies who don’t work to the churches, to cook the meals, to provide for the homeless in their community. I’d followed the pastor to the city government’s homeless centers which provided a place to shower for the homeless, a well as place of rest for them, especially in the icy, cold winters, how can anybody stay on the streets, where it was, over -20˚Celsius, the homeless in the streets of Toronto don’t look dirty, or wreaked, only a few who were drunk all day long, who’d become, annoyances.
I’d owned and operated a dinner at the subway centers, and had several homeless people come to dine, they were all, very cleanly dressed. They told me, so long as the unemployed can provide proofs of not having a home, or of mental problems, they can receive a few hundred dollars in assistance from the government, enough for them to live off of, this, is a country that cared about the human life using humane ways.
and this, is how a homeless person looks in Taiwan…
If Taiwan can set aside some small amount of funding, to turn the places that were built for other purpose, that are no longer in use and just sitting there into homeless shelters, and ask for donations of clean clothes, and food items, so the homeless population can have a safe place to sleep at night, and to bathe in, and with the encouragements of counselors and job trainers, to get them the skills they’d needed to have, for a job, it can not just help out the homeless in the population, it can also reduce the incidents of how the homeless were mistreated here, in Taiwan.
Well, that, would be a NICE thought, wouldn’t it??? But what worked overseas wouldn’t necessarily work here, because of the geographical differences, as well as the cultural differences, and yeah, this would be ideal, for the homeless to turn into workers, like in western nations such as what the writer mentioned, Canada, but it doesn’t happen in Taiwan…and it’s still NOT because the homeless here are lazier than overseas either!
Life, the Obstacle Course 