Last week’s book presentations demonstrated the difficult life that homeless people live in the streets. The way in which they are constantly degraded by citizens, police officers and people in homeless shelters. Initially I had a strong belief that every organization was there to help and support people who willingly showed up to their agency. After hearing what my classmates had to say, I realized that sometimes asking for help is not enough. That people in these agencies believe that only they know what is best.
This weekend, news articles from the Bay Area made me realize that above all of the challenges that homeless people face, there are still good people in the world. An article from Mission Local: Local News For A Global Neighborhood wrote that several homeless people were provided with access to port-o-potty’s and several received a meal and pairs of socks. The article also pointed out the GoFundMe campaign that a celebrity launched in order to buy tents for the city’s homeless. Mission Local also points out to their readers that the current policies on homelessness have not fixed San Francisco’s problem. This only comes to demonstrate that there is something that is not being done right.