Archive for August, 2011
Catherine
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet I may have never known Catherine was homeless unless there was a hat on the sidewalk “asking” for donations. Funny thing in Canada, homeless people in urban areas don’t actually ask for money like they do in the States. That would be considered “aggressive panhandling”, and often homeless people are ticketed or arrested. I [...]
Mark
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet Mark had been traveling around Canada looking for work and finally found a job in Winnipeg. Trouble is, he doesn’t get his first paycheck for ten days and still needs money to survive. Mark says panhandling is better than doing crime and going to jail, and even though he can be ticketed for panhandling, [...]
Alma
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet Imagine going to college and the living arrangement gets so bad living under a bridge is a better solution. Imagine going to college and sleeping on people’s floors and couches and anyplace you can find just to be of the streets and stay in school. Imagine being a grandmother trying to make a better [...]
Brenda
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet I saw Brenda blocks away sitting in front of a shopping mall in Saskatoon, Canada. She wasn’t asking people for anything. She was just sitting. Panhandling is humiliating so often homeless people can’t bring themselves to beg but just sit in public areas. Brenda shares about sleeping outside and sprinklers going off getting all [...]
Rhoda
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet “I kind of got used to living in jail because I had food to eat and a place to sleep” are words that should never come out of anyone’s mouth, especially not a gorgeous twenty seven year-old woman who has been homeless since fourteen. 601 Outreach Centre, a part of AIDS Saskatoon, took me [...]
Patrina
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet I met Petrina and her daughter in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Petrina lives with her three children in a women’s shelter, and her husband stays at a men’s shelter on the other side of town. Families having to split up is often common in homeless services, and can be a road block to families accepting [...]
Clayton
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet ATTENTION: Please listen to this interview. Clayton’s open and candid interview brings to light not only the problems of homelessness but the solutions to end homelessness. I like Clayton. I really do. He shares a very real story about surviving homelessness in Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories of Canada. During the short summer season [...]
Gina
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet When I look at Gina’s face, I see a strong, caring woman, who has done her best to survive in a strange world. I see years of pain, yet a personal strength to still look for hope. I met Gina in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. In my two days there my heart was broken [...]
Cassien
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet Every day I am asked to compare Canadian homelessness to homelessness in the United States. Pretty much it’s the same. Geographical climate changes how people live, the “drug of choice” (what’s readily available on the street) changes, and how communities deal with homelessness does change. Some communities try and ignore or push homelessness away, [...]
Cameron
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet This may be the most candid and honest interview about addictions so far. I have lots of respect for Cameron for having the courage to be so real about his drug abuse in this interview. I met Cameron in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. He was homeless in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, and then moved [...]
