This isn't my Week 2 video - that will be late - but I wanted to make and share this experience ASAP with you. It's one in the morning and I've spent 3 hours of my evening giving out food to people living on the streets. Most of the people we saw were on drugs or suffering the hard consequences of having been on drugs. Quite often they were opening up bins to find food or cans and other rubbish to sell. When looking through the eyes of someone wanting to help: poverty and homelessness somehow seems a lot more a grave problem (as opposed to looking at it from a person-in-a-hurry, disgusted point of view) and you feel much more sympathetic. What I noticed was that most of the homeless were men, black and/or immigrants from other parts of Brazil and South America. We even came across a teenage boy in the cross-continent coach terminal that could've definitely been a younger brother, and it was horrible to think that these people once had families and you could tell had been raised well but fell into drugs.
(The video will explain the rest) but I know I'll sleep well tonight knowing that I've provided food to about 30 people in need tonight.
(The video will explain the rest) but I know I'll sleep well tonight knowing that I've provided food to about 30 people in need tonight.