Archive for the ‘canada’ Category
Fred
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011, senior, St John's
Tweet I met Fred in St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Fred is one of those older colorful gents you could talk to all day. Fred shared an apartment with a roommate who took off with the rent. Fred was lucky because he never spent any time on the streets. After he was evicted he found housing [...]
Ron
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness
Tweet I met Ron at a homeless shelter in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. His story is far from usual. Ron lived in Boston with his wife and kids. He ended up in the custody of Homeland Security and was deported back to Canada with only the clothes on his back. Ron admits he has a [...]
David
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet David has been homeless in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, ever since he lost his wife and his dog, and then his house. David says Fort McMurray is the best place in Canada to be homeless. Because deposit cans are 25 cents each homeless people can make $100 a day recycling. Thing is, Fort McMurray [...]
Lee Anne
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet Lee Anne is 24 years-old and lives in a homeless shelter in Montreal, Canada. Lee Anne lost her job because of the failing economy and couldn’t afford to stay in her apartment. Lee Anne was lucky. She never spent any time on the streets and was able to find a women’s shelter. [...]
Erin
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet Maybe the hardest thing for me to help ‘normal’ people understand is how drugs and alcohol take over a person’s life and that it’s not so easy to quit. I get that normal people can have a drink or two and then never pick up a drink for days or weeks. Unfortunately, many people [...]
Richard
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet I met Richard in Saskatoon, Canada. He was born in Toronto, but moved to California when he was five. Richard moved back to Canada eight years ago after they detected an aortic aneurysm and his insurance in the U.S. jumped from $140 a month to $3,400 a month. A month ago he had a [...]
Darryl
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet I met Darryl panhandling in Toronto, Canada. He has been homeless on and off since 2007. Sadly, Darryl aged out of foster care with no place to go. Even worse, that is the norm not the exception for many young adults in North America. Although reports vary, since at best any homeless data is [...]
Carly
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet I met Carly in Winnipeg, Canada. Carley has been homeless since she was seventeen. Use was using drugs and her parents couldn’t take it anymore. The police came and picked her up, then dropped her off at a Salvation Army homeless shelter. The good news is Carly now has a year clean and sober. [...]
Al
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet I met Al in Toronto, Canada. Because of a drinking problem he lost his business, his family…everything. The night before we met Al slept outside. He has on the streets for 15 years. My heart broke when he told me his wife died this past October out on the streets. No one should die [...]
Terra
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011
Tweet I met Terra in Toronto, Canada. An outreach nurse who had been helping her connected us. Terra is a wonderful, gorgeous 25 year-old woman who has lived on the streets for 5 months. Terra tells a very real story about life on the streets. She doesn’t like shelters because she was beat up in [...]
