Who are Homeless people? Homeless People are people that don´t have a regular house because they can not afford it, or are unable to maintain a regular, safe and adequate housing. Homeless people may also be people whose primary night time residence is in a homeless shelter, in an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intendent to be institutionalized, or in a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.

Causes of Homelessness Unavailability of employment opportunities Low wages Poverty Lack of affordable health care War or armed conflict People with mental problems People with disabilities Domestic violence

more causes… Natural disasters The increase of the prices of things Substance abuse: Alcohol or drug problems Prison Relationship breakdown

Effects of Homelessness Homeless people face many problems like: Safety Privacy Lack of hygiene and sanitary facilities Clean clothes Obtaining, preparing and storing food in quantities Reduced access to health care and dental services Limited access to education Less access to jobs and therefore to food, clothes, etc.

more effects… They could start to steal Increased risk of violence General rejection and discrimination by other people Reduced access to communication and technology Sometimes mothers have to endure seeing how they take their children away from them Children have higher rates of ear infections, stomach problems, and stronger asthma. Children can be depressed, anxious or withdrawn and have difficulties at school.

more effects… Adults have a greater risk of unhealthy conditions and serious illnesses like: HIV/AIDS, diabetes and tuberculosis among others. They feel bad so they start drinking beer or consuming drugs.

Homelessness in Peru and in the world Statistics of Homeless people around the world: China 200,000,000 homeless people (15% of their population) U.S.A 3,500,000 homeless people (1% of their population) Brazil around 115,000 homeless people (0.1% of their population) Canada around 250,000 homeless people (0.7% of their population) Australia 100,000 homeless people (0.4% of their population) Peru around 78,696 homeless people (0.3% of their population)

Interviews We interviewed Sister Mónica Nobl from Las Siervas Del Plan De Dios We interviewed Mauricio from Un Techo Para Mi Pais.

Helping Most countries provide a variety of services to assist homeless people. They often provide food, shelter and clothing. These programmes may be supported, organized and run by government, charities, religious organizations and individual donors. In Peru the government can help by passing new laws to help homeless people, creating prevention campaigns, informing the citizens, giving more employment opportunities, and a new better education about homeless people and how citizens can help them. We can help making donations, organizing events like fairs, raffles, ‘pollada’ and volunteering to build houses.

Actions To help we have done a food collection in our school and sold cookies, brownies and lemonade around our neighborhood. We have made 100 soles and collected food that we will donate to the San Lucas Shelter.

Sources shttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/homelessnes s ss3.htmhttp://money.howstuffworks.com/homele ss3.htm ses.htmlhttp://homelessresourcenetwork.org/cau ses.html SisterMónicaNobl.personal interview.15nov.2010 Mauricio.personalinterview. 15nov.2010

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