Homeless people in Russia: any chances to eliminate the problem? (By Luck (761))
18.05.2010, 22:04
Can we somehow stop the growth of number of homeless people in our country? Why are there so many tramps in Russia? If we start analyzing the whole situation concerning thins problem in the world then we can see some regularity. Let us take, for example, Europe. Do we see many homeless people in Great Britain, France, Germany? Statistic says "no”. But there are the same people in these countries as in our. Though their government try to cope with this problem. And I must say they do it quite successfully. The authorities give money for building shelters, they pay benefits So why is it so different in our country? First of all, I’d like to say that there are several types of homeless people. Why do people start leading such kind of life? There are several reasons for it. Of course if a child is born in such a "problem” family, then he becomes a homeless person "automatically”. But why do people become homeless when they are already adults, when they are mature people? Is it really so difficult to find your own path in life and follow it? We see that in Russia most of the tramps are alcoholics who don’t want to change anything in their life just because everything "suits” them. But if they don’t want to improve their own life somehow, then why do we let them spoil our own one? They just sit, walk, and lie at every railway- and bus-station. Sometimes it can be dangerous to walk in the evening because you can find a drunkard on a bench near your house. And thanks God if he just lies and sleeps because otherwise it can be a real "adventure” to enter the house. There is also one thing that irritates me a lot. And I think everybody faced it at least at once. There are some places in every city where homeless people gather more often. These are squares, parks and other places for entertainment. They stay here hoping for getting some money from tourists and local people. They usually say they are ill or their relatives need some medical treatment or, for example, that they need money to buy a ticket to get back home. And this is our mentality to trust them, to feel pity for them. Though it’s clear that in a few seconds after they have got the money and collected a necessary sum they turn round the corner and buy a bottle of vodka. But actually this is only their problem. Everybody can choose how to live and what to do. I’m quite ashamed only about the fact that our government can do nothing to "clean” the benches near, for example, Red Square from these drunkards. And we observe this situation in our capital! So it’s easy to imagine that throughout the country it becomes even worse. Whilst walking in such places I just always ask myself one question, "Why do we behave in such a way? Why do we not want to become a civilized country and "take” these people away, somewhere? Why do we not want to clean everything and be proud, at last, that we live in Russia?” I just sometimes try to guess what foreigners think about us when they visit our country and walk down the street. Of course there are many other reasons why people start living on the street. And I’m sure we shouldn’t treat them badly. We just must help them to find a way out from this awful situation. And by the way, quite often we can see an old granny who begs money to buy a piece of bread. Usually we say, "I’m not going to give a single ruble to these beggars because if they really needed money they would find any job and get their deserved salaries!” To tell the truth, I myself have the same opinion. But what should old people do? They are too old and ill to work, and the government only plays a mean trick on them. I think it’s impossible to describe the whole situation that reigns in Russia now. Every year we just say (actually for nothing) that we must solve and eliminate this problem, our government must think how to help homeless people. And unfortunately we don’t see any improvements. But maybe everything depends on the choice and wish of these tramps? Maybe we’ll never be able to make our society ideal? Or maybe we just don’t need it?
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