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What to do outside the UK?
Arcan Cirick - Keeper of Silly Horses and all things Entertainingly Equine Started conversation Oct 2, 2002
This isn't just the UK, this is most of the World friends!
In Denmark - home of the Keeper of Da 'Orses (me) - there are homeless people, much the same as in Great Brittain. And that goes for most of "our part" of the World.
Move south and the problem increases, both due to poverty and the fact that you can survive with lesser shelter than on our lattitudes.
Leave Europe and forget about Social Security in large parts of the World. Thousands, nay millions, who have little or no shelter. Who would, in the words of an old Monty Python Sketch, call the cardboardhouses "luxury". People who spend most their lives without ever having known a place called "home".
So in fact, once again quoting MP: "We're the lucky ones!"
And my point is this: Just because it is worse out there, doesn't mean that it isn't equally horrid to those who experience it in "our part" of the World.
"My Home is My Castle", an old British saying goes. In deed, but what with no roof and no home, where's the castle to protect me? No, being without a home, be it ever so meagre, is H*** on Earth!
But what to do about it? No, it's not easy. There are but few votes to be had from people who have no regular adress. And even so, they are a minority. But that does not give us the right to ignore them or shun them.
It could be you or I tomorrow!
AC
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