Many people suggest holding matches and lighters out of homeless survival kits for safety reasons. I disagree with this strategy, and adverse weather is a big reason why. Cold weather can be a dangerous killer and a small campfire can be the difference between life and death. Including a war...
The research questions addressed participant awareness of available cold weather services, survival strategies during inclement winter weather, and barriers to cold weather service use. This phenomenological study examined those lived experiences. Purposeful sampling was used to recruit eligible individuals (...
To these two sisters marriage is probably just as much about survival as it is about happiness. I have absolute confidence those familes will stick together because they have to. They don’t have the kind of resources to make it on their own. Even with five working adults they’re barely...
For too many women, the deck they were dealt is weighed down by poverty and its limited choices. Full hands are rare and under the weight of of poverty’s pervasive nature, every card played can take you out of the game, leaving you empty-handed, fighting for your survival. I met a ...
Health insurance does not protect against the fragmentation and dis- continuity of care that homeless people often experience, nor does it eliminate the daily struggle to meet basic survival needs that may cause homeless people to place a lower priority on seeking health care (Gelberg, et al.,...
The first origami-style cardboard tent was distributed on Dec. 22. A week later, L'Appel du Coeur helped deliver 19 more around central and north railway stations in Brussels. Unsold food and essential stuff to survive in the street such as a survival blanket and a coat against rain were...
In the small town of Aylesford in Kent, homeless man, Daniel Gauntlett died last Saturday night on the steps of an abandoned bungalow which was due to be demolished. As temperatures dropped to -2C, Mr Gauntlett finally succumbed to the damp and chilling weather. ...
Fundamentally, a Need is something required for pragmatic survival. A Want is something that would be nice. Your priorities may vary, but what a human needs to survive is pretty simple. Air, Water, Food, Shelter. Sometimes you may additionally need medicine,which can occasionally be improvised...
Imagine spending each night out on the streets and waking up to a blathering commotion on rough, lumpy concrete. Your thoughts leading you to your own theory of as the only chances of survival are begging and relying on people for food or change and searching for anything edible in the near...
Risk of freezing to death Anyone using a lot of alcohol is particularly at risk of freezing to death in this weather, as alcohol can numb people to the cold, leading to longer exposure and hypothermia. And addiction is a problem for many of Cork Simon’s service users, as is childhood ...