Persuasive Essay On Homeless

This story hits too close to home for me, being that I was homeless for about a year. My wife and I met and got married while we were both homeless 6 years ago, we lost all the possessions that we had before finding ourselves in our displaced condition. One of the first things you make a priority to get when you become homeless is a backpack. I already had my backpack when I met my wife, who was newly homeless, and I helped her find a backpack. Many of the places that help with food, shelter, and clothing, give you copious amounts of information in the process. Whether it be pamphlets, paperwork, phone numbers or addresses you must have a safe place to keep all that material because that becomes your only way to attempt to get back on

Eventually, you get the info about the LifeLine program, and you are given a phone with a certain number of minutes per month to use for free through the state, most of the displaced people you see do not pay for their phone or service and the phone becomes more precious than gold. Until you lose everything, you can not possibly understand the importance of being able to give someone your contact information. It’s not even about reaching out to others, believe me, the homeless will find a way to get in to contact with who they need to, even if it means taking four buses just to get dropped off miles away and walk to the person or place they are trying to reach. That’s how I got my first job application after becoming homeless, I walked. Once you apply for assistance, a job, or housing though there must be a way for that person to contact you back, which is where a phone becomes essential. Due to being homeless in the past, there isn’t much I couldn’t live without, after all, I have had to do it before and I survived, nevertheless, a phone does make things a lot easier. I believe my wife would say the same thing, you can live without anything except food and water to which there are food banks, churches, and missions that will feed you. It boils down to things you can’t replace which are few, such as family, photos, ashes of loved ones, things handed down