Month: January 2017

In the UK there are a lot of the people living in poverty some due to the fact of being homeless. We ignore them and push them out of our everyday life . I don’t understand why people in our society do this to the less fortunate people who are just like us in some ways. One thing is for certain, poverty is definitely a problem in the UK.

For example homelessness. In London there were more then 8000 rough sleepers during 2015/16. The number has more than doubled over the last five years, but not all of these rough sleepers were jobless. But you can definitely say that the number of homeless people are growing and it needs to stop.

Another problem in the UK is food poverty, in 2012/13 the trussle trust food bank provided over 350,000 people with in the UK with a food parcel this number has more then doubled over the last year. Another way that you can be poverty that is related to food is that if you have to take free school meals, the reason for having to have a free school meal is that if your parents don’t work or if they don’t have enough money to send you to school with meal. And statistics show that if you have a free school meal you are more likely to fail your GCSE’s.

The people that you are about to meet are invisible, people don’t talk about them that much but they are still here. We ignore them and push them out of our everyday life, i don’t understand why the people in our society do this to the less fortunate people that our just like us in many ways. I can see why some people push certain people out of there life but not everyone is the same i think that everyone should get a chance to prove them self in society, what i mean by prove them self is that they should get a chance to show the people that they can function just as well as any other person living there normal life.

In a bedsit in south London, I sit talking to Michael. Until last year, Michael had a steady job but was made redundant due to staffing costs. I ask him how he is coping with being made redundant and he replied with. ” I’m coping fine because i had quit a bit of money saved up from when i was working but i’m soon going to run