By Anne Karine, José & Xavier
TV report interviewing people involved in this confict.
Interview with:
the drugabuser
The neighbor leader
The politician
The police
The social worker at STRAKS
The gardener
Where is it going on?
The situation :
Yesterday there come to a severe conflict among a group of drugabusers at the needle hill and the neighbors. The nightpartoler was trying to clean a sone of drugabuser but the drugabuser refused to leave and one them took a canyle and attacked the nightpartoler. It came a fight and the police were contacted and before they came five persons were involved in the fight and two persons became havely wonded
This raise the discussion again about where should the drugabuser be, and how to solve the conflict with the neighbours
there was a fight last night among the druga buser and the neighbor
We see the drug abusers in their part of the park, and we see people passing by
The scene 1:
The interview with Johnny
A verbal park:
Neighbour leader:
Johnny:
Need the picture of the park
flickr picture by KayVee.INC
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The homeless presented by the gardner
Here we have the bench Antony used to sleep on. Officially it is not allowed to stay overnight, but I closed an eye for him because I was one of the few people that talked to hem. He was shy and not very contact-full, but locals accepted him and even liked him somehow. So was I: when he died it was as if I lost a member of my family. It is a very sad story. He lived here for a very long time. He had a hard time and one morning I found him with a serious fever so I called the mobile unit of the Salvation Army. But that didn’t do him any good. They forced him to go into an institution, although the outside is his life. The open air is his past and his future, so he died unhappy in residential care for elderly only 3 months after I found him.
Antony was a part of the park. Many people know him. Some elderly brought leftovers for him. But other people like businessman eating their lunch in the park had difficulties to understand him. Especially when he was drunk and making amok I had to intervene from time to time. You know what is funny, I heard recently that he had a lot of money on the bank when he died, but maybe that only a rumor.
He was not the only homeless person frequenting this park, but he was certainly the most colorful. I feel so sorry for him. He grew up in a bad situation with abuse and going from one stepfamily to an other. He spent time in institutions and prisons. Never ever in his life was able to grew over his unhappy childhood. This is why his relation with the other homeless was ambiguous. He was like a father for them, but on the other hand he was very afraid of getting attached to them. He never learned to build relations or became emotionally attached to others.
Antonyinheaven@hotmail.com
The family presented by the gardner
Gardener’s Introduction to the mothers at the duck pond
[Sometimes the grandparents come here with their grandchildren to feed the ducks, too]
Feedback: Should the gardener say that Mary goes over to talk with the elderly sometimes.
Milieu [where are they? Where do we find them?]
Characteristics of the person in detail
Dialogue; what are the issues? What is being said and who is saying it? ‘I am ...’ ‘I enjoy ....’ ‘They like’
This is the duck pond, and as you can see there are a group of mothers with their children feeding the ducks and the swan. The ducks and the swan are so fat they can’t even take off to fly away. Maybe we should have a sign that says “Please don’t feed the birds”. Some of the mothers here I’ve known since their parents used to bring them here as children. That lady over there, with the two young children, I remember her as a little girl from long ago. I see her occasionally over the other side of the park where they have the football pitch. I guess it’s because her husband comes here to play
[Sometimes the grandparents come here with their grandchildren to feed the ducks, too]
Feedback: Should the gardener say that Mary goes over to talk with the elderly sometimes.
Milieu [where are they? Where do we find them?]
Characteristics of the person in detail
Dialogue; what are the issues? What is being said and who is saying it? ‘I am ...’ ‘I enjoy ....’ ‘They like’
The immigrants presented by the gardner
Here is the place where we find the immigrantgroups. This group enlarged a lot the last 20 years! They are so colourful! Talking, eating, dancing together with their families. First there came the Italians, later Marocan, Turkey families and sometimes they offered me their food. Strange, but most of the times I liked it very much!
A pity is that they left a lot of foodrests after they have been here! And they sometimes make a lot of noise! What is funny to see is that the women are together, separated from the men, talking, playing with the children. Sometimes they are with headscarves or burkas and some of the elderly people told me that they don’t feel at home anymore in their own park…..
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Scene "the youths"
by Eduardo & ??
One Sunday, Bob and Eve meet each another in the park. They are reading a fly poster about the next Concert. Time by time the Municipality gives the younger the possibility to go to a Concert for free. This was inside the local programmation for young people.
When Bob are reading the fly poster, he noticed that a pretty girl with a skate on bag rucksack (mochila), was also reading it.
They looked each other and they smile. At this moment they begin to speak about their feelings.
B: Hi, I see you also like doing skateboard, don’t you?
E: Yes, of course. I love it.
B: My name is Bob. What’s your name?
E: Eve. What do you think about this concert? Do you know this group: “Sweet Dreams”?
B: No, I have never heard about it. I think the council doesn’t mind the wishes of the city’s young people. They only think of paying low cash so they bring to us groups without quality.
E: It’s always the same story. They don’t worry about young people needs, specially our needs.
B: What do you mean? Do you talk about the music or the skating area in this park?
E: I refer specially our wishes. Don’t you think we need more street obstacles? This park seems to be for beginners. The Council didn’t permit us to skate the city’s ramps. Now, we are outside the city, here, in this park and with this situation.
E: Yes, but this skate park is our life.
B: It’s true. But I think we have talk about other problems we have here. We need more lights, water, a shelter and more space. We are in a perpetual circle.
One Sunday, Bob and Eve meet each another in the park. They are reading a fly poster about the next Concert. Time by time the Municipality gives the younger the possibility to go to a Concert for free. This was inside the local programmation for young people.
When Bob are reading the fly poster, he noticed that a pretty girl with a skate on bag rucksack (mochila), was also reading it.
They looked each other and they smile. At this moment they begin to speak about their feelings.
B: Hi, I see you also like doing skateboard, don’t you?
E: Yes, of course. I love it.
B: My name is Bob. What’s your name?
E: Eve. What do you think about this concert? Do you know this group: “Sweet Dreams”?
B: No, I have never heard about it. I think the council doesn’t mind the wishes of the city’s young people. They only think of paying low cash so they bring to us groups without quality.
E: It’s always the same story. They don’t worry about young people needs, specially our needs.
B: What do you mean? Do you talk about the music or the skating area in this park?
E: I refer specially our wishes. Don’t you think we need more street obstacles? This park seems to be for beginners. The Council didn’t permit us to skate the city’s ramps. Now, we are outside the city, here, in this park and with this situation.
E: Yes, but this skate park is our life.
B: It’s true. But I think we have talk about other problems we have here. We need more lights, water, a shelter and more space. We are in a perpetual circle.
The drug abusers presented by the gardner
Here you will meet Johnny and the other guys. He has been for 5 years in the park, and he is one of the drug abusers.
He is an amazing person, yesterday you could even read an interview with him in the newspaper.
But you know they also create some problems for me, because as you can see there is a lot of garbage here. And “normaly” people tries to avoid this place. Lately there has been some writing in the newpapers about neighbors complaining about them being here.
Scene "the immigrants"
by Bieke og Rina
| Situation (click on the shop nearby the park and you hear the dialogue….) Arkan is a wellknown figure in the community – hears a lot in his shop and the market he is once a week, about the neighbourhood, about what is going on, but also the and the annoyances of the community. He is trusted by his sun and his friends, he know that there are some problems, but don’t know how to deal with it. - Arkan gives him his bread Than sun Karhan and daughter Leki come in to help their father preparing for the market the other day Arkan to his sun…. Karhan is hesitating….. Karhan is a drop out but his parents don’t know by sure, by they assume something. He has some bad friends, don’t know how to deal with that. He needs more support, because he has no image of the future: what he wants to become etc. Daughter Leki is active in the community centre (very social, can make friends everywhere, still in school, thinks about to be a teacher with small children of may be a social worker) | Dialogue Good morning Arkan, how is the bread today? I just saw the police here. Did something happen? - Morning Bezan. Well, we have very nice bread today! I really don’t know what is going on, but the police was looking for my sun! their has been a fight in the park and they wanted to know if he had something to do with it. - Was there again a fight in the park between the youngsters? It happens so often the last couple of months. It’s no longer our safe place to sit, talk, eat and have fun together….. By the way, don’t you think we need some more facilities and space in our park – more safety but also water, our own barbecueplace ..? And our own table to play cards or chess? - Bezan pays and says: Well I hope there is no much trouble with your sun. Thanks for the bread. See you tonight! The police was here and asked for you! Where were you this morning? There seemed to be a fight in the park. I told them you were at School. That’s right isn’t it? Uhhhhhhhhhhhh, well, I was at school, but we came out earlier and the others asked if I came with them to the park…and then we had a discussion with the skinheads, who did not want us there. He insulted me …. He pushed me in, but I hitted him only once.. Why don’t you come also to the community center! That’s a good and safe place to meet. All my friends are coming there and we have contacts there with everybody. We even talked today about organizing a party or so for all of us…. |
The Immigrants
by Bieke og Rina
Some characteristics:
- Different countries…. Maroc, Tukey, Poland, Roumanian, Gipsies……
- Often a ‘we’ culture (group, groupfeeling)
- Different religions – Islam,
- Less changes – less education, less workpossibilities = less money, poverty, healthproblems (psychological problems)
- Languageproblems (children – educational problems f.i.)
- Wish to live outside – less ’green’ possibilities, so leisuretimes in the streets
- Radicalisation – extreme right, islamisering
- Shawl/headscarf/burka
- Discrimination on different levels (colour, work, school, politics)
- Sexuality, relations, give in marriage, murder in the name of family honour
- Poverty, low incomes, inurement (habituation)
- Diversity in the community, little shops (food, furniture etc.) = colourful
- Differences in culture/art: music, dance is more part of the daily life
- Living in 2 cultures – at home and outside (school, work)
- First, second and third generations- difference in characteristics
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2005/11/immigrants-in-netherlands-fact-and.html
Family Bourkanyaia
Father, mother, a son of 15 years old Karhan and girl Leki of 18. The father and the mother immigrated 20 years ago to this country, the children are born here.
Father has a local shop with food. The community is happy with his good bread, specific vegetables etc. He is respected in the community. The mother has some health problems –is bothering about some things in the family and is not feeling well accepted in the community.
The boy isn’t doing well at school and is a drop-out – spending a lot of time with his friends in the park. The girl is at school, doing rather well but feels the difference between the more traditional culture at home and the culture at school. (She is in love with a ‘autochthonous’ boy, with give a lot of tensions in the family)
Give a specific situation – and voice to the situation……..
Women from the same culture, going to the park… talking
Mileu/surroundings
Multicultural –high flats – big families in small apartments – small balconies with a lot of wash – trash and satellites. There is weekly market and a lot of local little shop. There is also a mosque.
Smells – music ……..
flickr pic by dirac3000
Some characteristics:
- Different countries…. Maroc, Tukey, Poland, Roumanian, Gipsies……
- Often a ‘we’ culture (group, groupfeeling)
- Different religions – Islam,
- Less changes – less education, less workpossibilities = less money, poverty, healthproblems (psychological problems)
- Languageproblems (children – educational problems f.i.)
- Wish to live outside – less ’green’ possibilities, so leisuretimes in the streets
- Radicalisation – extreme right, islamisering
- Shawl/headscarf/burka
- Discrimination on different levels (colour, work, school, politics)
- Sexuality, relations, give in marriage, murder in the name of family honour
- Poverty, low incomes, inurement (habituation)
- Diversity in the community, little shops (food, furniture etc.) = colourful
- Differences in culture/art: music, dance is more part of the daily life
- Living in 2 cultures – at home and outside (school, work)
- First, second and third generations- difference in characteristics
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2005/11/immigrants-in-netherlands-fact-and.html
Family Bourkanyaia
Father, mother, a son of 15 years old Karhan and girl Leki of 18. The father and the mother immigrated 20 years ago to this country, the children are born here.
Father has a local shop with food. The community is happy with his good bread, specific vegetables etc. He is respected in the community. The mother has some health problems –is bothering about some things in the family and is not feeling well accepted in the community.
The boy isn’t doing well at school and is a drop-out – spending a lot of time with his friends in the park. The girl is at school, doing rather well but feels the difference between the more traditional culture at home and the culture at school. (She is in love with a ‘autochthonous’ boy, with give a lot of tensions in the family)
Give a specific situation – and voice to the situation……..
Women from the same culture, going to the park… talking
Mileu/surroundings
Multicultural –high flats – big families in small apartments – small balconies with a lot of wash – trash and satellites. There is weekly market and a lot of local little shop. There is also a mosque.
Smells – music ……..
flickr pic by dirac3000
Scene "homeless"
by Andres & Pieter
Early in the morning
Sunny day
We see the gardener sited in a bench with a postal package plus a letter in his hands. The sender is Anthony and the receiver the Gardener.
The gardener opens the letter and lets the package in the bench.
He starts to read
We hear Anthony’s voice in off
Dear Gardener:
If you're reading this letter is that I have passed away. My latest will was sending you this letter and the attached package..
The first I want to do is to sincerely thank you all that you has done for me during last years...
If you open the package you will find some of my loved personal belongings. The old gold watch of my grandparent… A photo from time when a served the Army…
You will also find a bearer check with all the savings I have done during the last years. You can do what you want with this amount of money, but I am sure you will do the best.
Late in the evening. Same place.
We see 3 homeless people (MICH, DEBBY AND CINDY) trying to prepare them to sleep (carton, etc.).
Tobby (the dog) is also there barking sometimes
They have small taking among them
Debby drinks from his bottle
Cindy gives some wine to Mich
The gardener appears. He is closing the garden and be sure that nobody is inside.
The gardener goes where the three homeless are and start to talk with them
-Mich: Its really cold today. Do you have some booze there?
-Debby: Fuck me, Bro,
- And you Cindy?
…
Gardener: Hi boys, hi lady! Today is really cold, and the forecast predicts heavy rain. Why don’t you go to the Shelter?
Mitch: Leave us. We are not going there. We hate it. We are not sisis. All are rules, cynic people…
Gardener: Remember Anthony. He got really ill here.
Mitch: But the Shelter finished off him.
Early in the morning
Sunny day
We see the gardener sited in a bench with a postal package plus a letter in his hands. The sender is Anthony and the receiver the Gardener.
The gardener opens the letter and lets the package in the bench.
He starts to read
We hear Anthony’s voice in off
Dear Gardener:
If you're reading this letter is that I have passed away. My latest will was sending you this letter and the attached package..
The first I want to do is to sincerely thank you all that you has done for me during last years...
If you open the package you will find some of my loved personal belongings. The old gold watch of my grandparent… A photo from time when a served the Army…
You will also find a bearer check with all the savings I have done during the last years. You can do what you want with this amount of money, but I am sure you will do the best.
Late in the evening. Same place.
We see 3 homeless people (MICH, DEBBY AND CINDY) trying to prepare them to sleep (carton, etc.).
Tobby (the dog) is also there barking sometimes
They have small taking among them
Debby drinks from his bottle
Cindy gives some wine to Mich
The gardener appears. He is closing the garden and be sure that nobody is inside.
The gardener goes where the three homeless are and start to talk with them
-Mich: Its really cold today. Do you have some booze there?
-Debby: Fuck me, Bro,
- And you Cindy?
…
Gardener: Hi boys, hi lady! Today is really cold, and the forecast predicts heavy rain. Why don’t you go to the Shelter?
Mitch: Leave us. We are not going there. We hate it. We are not sisis. All are rules, cynic people…
Gardener: Remember Anthony. He got really ill here.
Mitch: But the Shelter finished off him.
Elderly faces from the park
by Wolfgang & David
MILIEU AND CHARACTERISTICS (Neighborhood, housing condition, rent, money, habits, family, health conditions, leisure time...)
We talk about a group of three woman that usually met each other at the park.
The 3 woman lives in the city...two of them was born in the same city and the other (Ms. Rivera) lives there form 1965 (she is from Spain)
they live near the park in different buildings (...)
Only one is married Ms. Schneider (her husband spend a lot of time watching tv, he prefers that than being with his wife), Ms. Rivera and Mr. Kleiber are widows,
All of them have good incomes from the state(their houses are paid)
Ms. kleiber (80) has problems to walk, rheumatism , and she needs a walking stick
Ms. Schneider (78) has audition problem
Ms. Rivera (75) has good health conditions (she says that is related about her food habits)
Ms. Schneider has 2 sons and 1 daughter (age: 45, 47 and 50...,
Where the sons live?
How many, for each character...
The things that they like to do in leisure time (chat, walk, sitting on a bench, cooking, reading books...)
Some of them have to pass time with their grandchild...
Flickr pic by Murray Williams
MILIEU AND CHARACTERISTICS (Neighborhood, housing condition, rent, money, habits, family, health conditions, leisure time...)
We talk about a group of three woman that usually met each other at the park.The 3 woman lives in the city...two of them was born in the same city and the other (Ms. Rivera) lives there form 1965 (she is from Spain)
they live near the park in different buildings (...)
Only one is married Ms. Schneider (her husband spend a lot of time watching tv, he prefers that than being with his wife), Ms. Rivera and Mr. Kleiber are widows,
All of them have good incomes from the state(their houses are paid)
Ms. kleiber (80) has problems to walk, rheumatism , and she needs a walking stick
Ms. Schneider (78) has audition problem
Ms. Rivera (75) has good health conditions (she says that is related about her food habits)
Ms. Schneider has 2 sons and 1 daughter (age: 45, 47 and 50...,
Where the sons live?
How many, for each character...
The things that they like to do in leisure time (chat, walk, sitting on a bench, cooking, reading books...)
Some of them have to pass time with their grandchild...
Flickr pic by Murray Williams
Johnny from “the needle hill”
By Anne Karine, José & Xavier
Description of the situation:
It is a group of drugabuser in the park (junkies).
They are in different age, from the 13? – 45 year
Different sex, mainly men, the women is into prostitution, more invisible (you find them in another place).
They are standing in the upper part of the park which is called “the needle hill” by the locals.
Close to where they are there is a hotel and some more sophisticated houses. The neighbors to the needle hill are very embarrassed by their doing…. By their hygienic costumes and sexual activities sometimes in their garden.
Needles are “floating around” and people are worried about dogs and children that can be hurt or infected by the needles. Sometimes there are a lot of noise and fights. People living nearby and families that likes to be in the park feel embarrassed by the junkies. Sometimes they can see that they are cleaning their needles in the water fountain (for drinking) and that they are doing injections where families are sitting nearby.
There is a problem that youngsters are coming to the park and that parents as well as teachers and social workers and the police are worried about youngsters becoming part of this milieu.
There has been a lot of protest from the neighborhood in the newspapers lately about the situation in the park and the leader of the neighbor organization has had several notices in the newspaper on this and also made contact with the politician and the social authorities.
There is a discussion among the readers if the junkies should be moved to another area in the city – this raise other questions about what this solve.
The junkies are living in the city but also outside the cities, but they come to this park to get the drugs.
One of the local newspaper journalists makes an interview and portrait of Johnny who is one of the junkies in the park.
Characters:
Johnny:
The journalist?:
The leader of the neighbor organization:
There are two or three persons here that get in contact with the journalists who want to make a portrait of the junkies situation.
He wakes up in the morning and the first to do is to think how to get the stuff. Some way of getting the drug is steeling, begging and selling Megafon.
User participation and participatory action involving the group of junkies to do something which does not make conflict.
The story is told by the drugabuser “ Johny
The Neighbourhood The story is also told by one of the neighbours in the park who think they should be moved from the park
Politician
flickr picture by KayVee.INC
Description of the situation:
It is a group of drugabuser in the park (junkies).
They are in different age, from the 13? – 45 year
Different sex, mainly men, the women is into prostitution, more invisible (you find them in another place).
They are standing in the upper part of the park which is called “the needle hill” by the locals.
Close to where they are there is a hotel and some more sophisticated houses. The neighbors to the needle hill are very embarrassed by their doing…. By their hygienic costumes and sexual activities sometimes in their garden.
Needles are “floating around” and people are worried about dogs and children that can be hurt or infected by the needles. Sometimes there are a lot of noise and fights. People living nearby and families that likes to be in the park feel embarrassed by the junkies. Sometimes they can see that they are cleaning their needles in the water fountain (for drinking) and that they are doing injections where families are sitting nearby.
There is a problem that youngsters are coming to the park and that parents as well as teachers and social workers and the police are worried about youngsters becoming part of this milieu.
There has been a lot of protest from the neighborhood in the newspapers lately about the situation in the park and the leader of the neighbor organization has had several notices in the newspaper on this and also made contact with the politician and the social authorities.
There is a discussion among the readers if the junkies should be moved to another area in the city – this raise other questions about what this solve.
The junkies are living in the city but also outside the cities, but they come to this park to get the drugs.
One of the local newspaper journalists makes an interview and portrait of Johnny who is one of the junkies in the park.
Characters:
Johnny:
The journalist?:
The leader of the neighbor organization:
There are two or three persons here that get in contact with the journalists who want to make a portrait of the junkies situation.
He wakes up in the morning and the first to do is to think how to get the stuff. Some way of getting the drug is steeling, begging and selling Megafon.
User participation and participatory action involving the group of junkies to do something which does not make conflict.
The story is told by the drugabuser “ Johny
The Neighbourhood The story is also told by one of the neighbours in the park who think they should be moved from the park
Politician
flickr picture by KayVee.INC
Mr. & Ms. B and their 2 kids
by Bob & Lasma
The Family
Peter B - 30
Mary B – 28
Linda B – 2 years
Paul B – 4 years
They live in rented apartment. It is well furnished.
Mr. B is assistant manager in a shop that sells technology (mobile phones, computers etc.). Mrs. B was teacher in secondary school. She is not working now because of lack of daycare for children under 3.
Everyday habits – Peter two or three times a week at evenings look after children to let Mary to have some time with herself. One evening in a week she goes to the English class. Other evenings she goes to visit her friends. Once or twice a week Mary takes the children to the park to feed ducks and swan, and to meet other mothers and chat.
Once a week in the evening Peter goes to play football with his friends in the park.
Both Peter and Mary have grown up in this area and have a lot of friends and family locally. They feel very positively about their local community and don’t anticipate that they will ever want to leave.
On weekends they go to the seaside or countryside, usually with friends. 5 years ago Peter took out a loan to buy the car which he is still paying back (3 more years to pay).
flickr pictures by Jackal of all trades
Antony "the homeless"
by Andres & Pieter
Story like in the press
(Other who know him, read it in the newspaper)
Antony is 72 and is living in the street. He had a lot of money in the bank but refuses any help from social services and he is a little bit afraid of other people (mentally disabled, social handicap). He becomes angry when strangers speak to him. It makes him feel ‘wrong seen’. Form him social workers of professionals are strangers that cannot be trusted. He also likes to be independent.
Gardener finds him in a really bad health condition “Do you need any help?” Antony sais “yes” and the gardener phones the mobile unit of the Salvation Army. And brings him to the hospital and after that to the shelter. Workers try to convince him to go to residential care of elderly. But he refuses because all social workers offer him doesn’t interests him. He has a public pension of 500euro/ month but he doesn’t take it up. He saves in on the bank and from time to time he collects money to buy alcohol.
For him it is very important to have money on the bank. He feels guilty when he takes this money. He explains to the social worker that he cannot spent the money for the residential care. He saved this amount for years and years. The institute for elderly costs 900/month. On his account there is enough money for paying the institute for 2 years. The social worker arranges a meeting with his nephew and this nephew is able to convince him to go to the institute. He within 3 months Antony dies.
People in the park know him. He has been living in the park for years.
His needs and characteristics
He needs to be left alone and doesn’t want to be disturbed. His main need is the quality of the benches. Benches in the park are not the same anywhere. There is a huge difference in quality because the colds comes from down. On top of that it is your hip with needs to be supported. Benches needs to be hollow so that you don’t roll out during the night.
Strength homeless: Can you do this put everything you own, everything you remember, all personal objects in one bag. This is a skill.
You don’t care about other people.
Elements for the students
Compulsory help? How can you reach this target-group as a social worker and how can you accept that homeless people don’t want to fit in to the schemas or steps social workers have in the head. Community project in order to gain trust in the other.
What is the community case in this? Is it too individualized?
Do we have to accept that people want to live on the street and just improve the conditions. Mattresses, washing place, public lockers for their stuff?
People don’t like them because they speak loud or homeless people get angry on passers-by. Antony symbolizes the social system not functions very well.
Tasks for students: write a reply in the newspaper, produce a drama plot for the theater corner.
The newspaper brings other groups in the park: journalists, politicians, businessmen, concerns from the teachers and the police. Concerns that come from people who go out there with the dog.
Who will take care of this situation in Spain, Belgium, Norway, Latvia? Who will be engaged in this?
Homeless feel unsecure, unsure and unsafe. Life is a chaos. I have no bounds with family, friends or neighborhood. I have difficulties to take care of my own life. I just can’t manage things that come up to me. Gambling. Mentally retardation and prostitution and I was mal treated as a child. Many health problems bronchitis and asthma. Skin and bone problems. Suffer violence and accidents. Prevalence of HIV. Refuse to go social services.
Profile of the homeless-people: mental diseases (most of them have mental problems and are schizophrenic) and drugs addicts.
Structural elements: homeless are invisible. There is almost no laws on the homeless.
There are teased and put away by the police. They are often angry on people passing by. They go to shelters.
Provide possibilities to sell something rather that begging initiatives like: Daklozenkrant, magaphone, La Farola
Homeless people are a danger to society. That is why politicians have to do something about them. They invite for violence. In the night they get beaten-up or they fight for alcohol. Homeless people make people feeling unsafe in the streets and in the parks. They are also risk to society because they are bearing diseases. Especially they contaminate the rest of the population with tuberculoses or HIV.
Flickr picture by Mabar
Story like in the press
(Other who know him, read it in the newspaper)
Antony is 72 and is living in the street. He had a lot of money in the bank but refuses any help from social services and he is a little bit afraid of other people (mentally disabled, social handicap). He becomes angry when strangers speak to him. It makes him feel ‘wrong seen’. Form him social workers of professionals are strangers that cannot be trusted. He also likes to be independent.
Gardener finds him in a really bad health condition “Do you need any help?” Antony sais “yes” and the gardener phones the mobile unit of the Salvation Army. And brings him to the hospital and after that to the shelter. Workers try to convince him to go to residential care of elderly. But he refuses because all social workers offer him doesn’t interests him. He has a public pension of 500euro/ month but he doesn’t take it up. He saves in on the bank and from time to time he collects money to buy alcohol.
For him it is very important to have money on the bank. He feels guilty when he takes this money. He explains to the social worker that he cannot spent the money for the residential care. He saved this amount for years and years. The institute for elderly costs 900/month. On his account there is enough money for paying the institute for 2 years. The social worker arranges a meeting with his nephew and this nephew is able to convince him to go to the institute. He within 3 months Antony dies.
People in the park know him. He has been living in the park for years.
His needs and characteristics
He needs to be left alone and doesn’t want to be disturbed. His main need is the quality of the benches. Benches in the park are not the same anywhere. There is a huge difference in quality because the colds comes from down. On top of that it is your hip with needs to be supported. Benches needs to be hollow so that you don’t roll out during the night.
Strength homeless: Can you do this put everything you own, everything you remember, all personal objects in one bag. This is a skill.
You don’t care about other people.
Elements for the students
Compulsory help? How can you reach this target-group as a social worker and how can you accept that homeless people don’t want to fit in to the schemas or steps social workers have in the head. Community project in order to gain trust in the other.
What is the community case in this? Is it too individualized?
Do we have to accept that people want to live on the street and just improve the conditions. Mattresses, washing place, public lockers for their stuff?
People don’t like them because they speak loud or homeless people get angry on passers-by. Antony symbolizes the social system not functions very well.
Tasks for students: write a reply in the newspaper, produce a drama plot for the theater corner.
The newspaper brings other groups in the park: journalists, politicians, businessmen, concerns from the teachers and the police. Concerns that come from people who go out there with the dog.
Who will take care of this situation in Spain, Belgium, Norway, Latvia? Who will be engaged in this?
Homeless feel unsecure, unsure and unsafe. Life is a chaos. I have no bounds with family, friends or neighborhood. I have difficulties to take care of my own life. I just can’t manage things that come up to me. Gambling. Mentally retardation and prostitution and I was mal treated as a child. Many health problems bronchitis and asthma. Skin and bone problems. Suffer violence and accidents. Prevalence of HIV. Refuse to go social services.
Profile of the homeless-people: mental diseases (most of them have mental problems and are schizophrenic) and drugs addicts.
Structural elements: homeless are invisible. There is almost no laws on the homeless.
There are teased and put away by the police. They are often angry on people passing by. They go to shelters.
Provide possibilities to sell something rather that begging initiatives like: Daklozenkrant, magaphone, La Farola
Homeless people are a danger to society. That is why politicians have to do something about them. They invite for violence. In the night they get beaten-up or they fight for alcohol. Homeless people make people feeling unsafe in the streets and in the parks. They are also risk to society because they are bearing diseases. Especially they contaminate the rest of the population with tuberculoses or HIV.
Flickr picture by Mabar
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