What you need to know first to help the homeless people. It should be noted that not every homeless person will be ready to meet the kindness. He faced daily with the indifference, aggression, and sometimes even with the disgust, so he can internally hardened and doesn`t accept the sincere with greet. And how he would feel after visiting the comfortable, warmth house, and after that will be again on the street?
If you plan to help comprehensively, systematically returning a homeless to a normal human life, you should be prepared that this is not a work for one single day or even a month, just think about the process of the documents restoration. You must also understand that a significant percentage of the homeless people has a criminal record, and some of them, uncommon, are accustomed to such kind of the life and do not want to change it. They are ready to accept your help, but they are not ready to socialize.
Who primarily need your help? People who are prepared to accept the good and the people who are in immediate need of the assistance (the elderly, the sick, etc.). If you do not have enough knowledge, strength, confidence, you should remember that in the city and in the country there are professionals who are informed very much with the proper help to the disadvantaged people. You can ask them for advice.
What help is the more useful for the homeless people?
1. If you met a homeless on the street, try to figure out, does this person need any help, talk to him, ask what happened. Incoordination, indistinct diction – is not necessarily the signs of the intoxication, often it`s the result of exposure to cold, lack of the sleep and a weakened health. The frostbite can be obtained at a temperature from -2 to +2 degrees (Celsius). For the people who received the hypothermia or cold injury, call 911. While doctors are coming, if you can, give the cup of hot tea to this affected person. Remember that the ambulance must help everyone on the emergency indications, regardless the availability of the documents and the citizenship. If you call 911, and after examination doctors decided to hospitalize a person, you need to know which hospital he would be hospitalized.
2. If the life of a homeless person is not in a danger, buy him a meal of hot tea.
You don`t need to give a money. A person can spend them to buy an alcohol. There is a myth that alcohol make the body warm. It is not true. Alcohol dulls the senses.
What kind of food is better to buy? It is important to buy the food that does not need cooking. The fast food products, which need to pour by the boiling water. You can buy the bread, cheese, sausage, canned food (which you do not need to open with a can opener), water. It is also very valuable to buy sweetness, (dry-) fruits. It will be okay without them, but they can help to restore the lack of the vitamins and minerals. You can also give people on the streets bananas, apples or sandwiches. It can be cheaper to buy all these things bulk at the stores such as Costco.
3. If you met a homeless man in your own porch, if it`s possible, do not drive the homeless on the street, this is the way how you can keep him alive. The people sleep in the porches because of the despair. In addition to food, you can give them the clothes. What clothes and footwear are needed? Clean, with whole buttons, zippers and laces, warm, suitable to wear. The socks, scarves, hats, gloves and underwear are always in demand. All kinds of the blankets and old suit coats are good for the improvement overnight.
Charitable actions to help the homeless people
If you want to help but do not have the willingness and capacity to take responsibility for the fate of a specific person – you just need to connect to the global assistance, which is provided to homeless charities. Such aid is easy for everyone, but it is very important for people who have to deal with the daily difficulties.
In the United States, and specifically in Utah the number of the homeless people in a few years declined by 74% due to the joint efforts of the government and charities.
All started with the fact that in 2005 the representatives of the state government estimated the money which it spends for each homeless person. In the year it was about 16 thousand dollars – the cost of the medical care, temporary content, etc. At the same time to provide a normal human habitation worth 11 thousand dollars. Since that time the special campaign began the construction of the residential complexes and mass socialization of the homeless people.
Social workers staff know exactly how to help the homeless and bring them back to a normal life. Most of the homeless people eventually gain a permanent job, return to a normal life.
Don’t do it ever!
1. Do not offer them a ride. Many homeless people suffer from the mental disorders and can be dangerous, at the same time some of them don`t know that they`re dangerous.
2. Do not offer to take them to your home. For some reasons, as described above, you should not give the shelter for the homeless at your home. Think about other ways to help the homeless.
3. Never get involved in a confrontation with the people who has a mental attack (illness). If someone shouts nervously or exhibit other signs of the mental illness, it is not necessary to engage in a debate with these people. In such kind of the situation just call the police.
4. Do not tease them, do not say that they are weaker or stupider. Usually, it is not like this. Sometimes in our lives a black stripe comes, and not all countries are able to help people get back on their feet.
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