i've always been lucky i had a great education a good job and enough money to live on. nuts worry about where i would sleep i could eat but now i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets. to come to this. but it is just because i wasn't you know disappointed in the food still give out food for the most of. her life.

because you don't really feel like a human being in it. and then. the guy just came over smithsonian gave me this book of. christmas is about whoops love and family but there are so many people in the u.k. that have none of these things i want to see what it was like to be almost on the signs to go through christmas as a homeless person. voice

rather directly. yes i hope so. well i know it's on your list i see it anything but a lump of coal although i don't know. that. since two thousand and ten the number of rough sleepers in the u.k. has increased by over fifty percent that means literally thousands are out on the street every night. i was going to have enough time to really understand homelessness but everyone has to face the fear that first night out i changed some types of clothes packed a plastic back. i have no idea where i'm going to spend christmas or even where i'm going to sleep. if. there's any. groups a few things but not too much with a. blanket it's just going to be void of course let's run. just

a bowl of water. something that's. hopefully put people in a good mood. and a towel. to clean myself a bit less and also my. brush. but i have no money. and i haven't eaten anything and the only way i'm going to get to eat something is on the following it's all. begging for enough money to get me some sweets. and that's the first. time this regularly fed by looking at charities but i have no idea where. i need

some advice from someone on. the bus journey with me this korea today you know. no place uses the money going gets me three times now it's on. the ground yet enough enough to. keep chickens. it was what i was hoping to. great news honey i'm too late and give out food around here first thing in the morning so i'll miss what shots. there was nothing else for it if i was going to eat i was going to have to make. the most of us folks. it's a humorous fun and exploring bring myself to what's mr chase.

but. really just sleaze him oh yeah. ok. she says christ just absolutely if. people buy in the believe. and then one kind guy just a may have been gay people to quit. i didn't expect that or do. you feel so ashamed to ask people. to feel about you have to do that to get to vote to get boy. to. the bus on which. first sophie does it with

a. pledge that winston. churchill. being told what it was things are starting to move the. thing that makes you feel it was the one. who went to some people to see how they were feeling the time . that this is the only thing out here they keep them happy in a just each time a territory adds to even though nothing him i have nothing else in life. lisa has been homeless for two years now she's battled alcoholism drug addiction

and a little girl home who lives with their older sister. in a she asks me nearly every day and some i say yeah. yeah when i'm in the back on the end she's starting to stop asking now has been said but i didn't. qualify for a lot of the hospitals because i wasn't mentally ill enough i didn't score enough points to not play. in order to get social housing permits person must meet a number of different criteria since lisa doesn't tick the right books since she faces an uncertain future. but yeah yeah i have it's own time now is just a lucky break wolf i can't get past because i can't let my thoughts down consistent to face like six weeks at least if i was to stop that.

these discussions reminded me just clips we put to christmas. it was celebrations going on all around me but they don't mean much if you've got nothing to spend. but they're all good people if you give up the money and time to spread a little festive cheer. it's just going to all fall sick so on heading down towards cherry hill sinestro see if i can find his goal is for spurs just for a smoke free food it. looks like christian church setups tables or even bill see how the characters.

on most. of us would be lovely. soup loves soup thank you very much think you. make it on that specific. thing. i think i speak for. myself try setting green. but i think it's my go help me i'm going to fix everything did your family or yeah. we can't stay on time because my dog soil i married my old. atheist they want to stay on top of me kids yes i will for. oh to find out if you want to start

to think he's. been hard you. must know what sort of a lot of eight year old son eight year old boy of sixteen to. twenty five year old boy. thought it was on him so non-pros ross writes. him into the night last night i just i just typed in my state source of. play in your response right write. stories like me to come in the first circle of dream control which leads to using everything. just right here in home to come to the richest parts of the u.k. is filled with people and we can pull just every night on the child's list but to sneak. a movie on.

when you're close because you run out of the you know that. bucket for a trait that i crave a day in jail. as unpleasant as the show on issues. because as i made this part of the obama. white house lewis who took. the fight you know what about smart if you controlling people fair and i don't know i know us or any of this is very much easier said than done as you point me. to the us so you just go in the meantime. i love. this story like you only. really took. recently this. circus. well you look at the book

me was getting at least of which were people who i could finally release some least from my way of life last fall off. any sympathy i had for critiques quickly for its it some people didn't deserve it. forced. me scuse me goes you don't fish for those tickets going to show. your opposition thank you very much that's what you want to was fun to very much not serious. mostly about the trouble cause it gets me on the ground gets me a bit warm up so say so i say surface bush. so this is a place i found. great commission ministry. just

down here but there were making their own choices in the next boy. whose. square didn't realize already this is the spring of horrible. two mice one of the most i think that they were mice type of mice were to run over my feet. his leg levering the slush. fund only been on the streets one day the discipline coach humiliating and frightening to some of the family in that stairwell the kind of time you have any time. i could easily see why drugs or

alcohol would act as a way to block out french reality. you need help to consult. someone catch me from . what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to. let you go right to the press it's like the fourth tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. last question. it's hard to imagine the decades after the war a nazi don't tell was still active and rich in the nineteen seventies current intel

had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz a german company develops a little mite drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy and it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything but. you know she said is just cut short arms minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that i did not only want the money i want the revenge . goes the longest day of my life. maybe a. in

the streets was more than enough for me. enough but the humiliation was worse. it was soul destroying. i wanted to spend christmas eve with some people who lived. very good. things went very well thank you very much could. have seen. papa say. from the isis projects we were an

intervention same. people talk addictions. the difference it's massive absolutely massive. this enabled me. to get my life back on track. when you leave st louis you don't realize just what an impact that has on someone's life. you know you have to get used to sharon again you have to get used to cooking your i muse again when you came in i guess you didn't know nothings now i had. the clothes on the back when i when i came here i had a pair of jeans. pair of trainers with holes in that was it that's all i can get with without the opportunity if these guys given that to me are you know where i'd be. very. sick. so. you.

have. to submit the script. he was on the streets new prison from the age of eighty he's going to show me some of his old haunts. a little the. home of the. white. castle he's now in it. yet he says he sees and this is the school yeah welcome to the school this is here to see where i still reside. as you can say you know this makeshifts just be careful where you take guys.

yeah yeah definitely want to go. you know where you're more welcome so if you wish off down there but you know there's a makeshift beds you can see people's bedrooms this is people's belongings these people with the stuff in the cold in here he says oh people's belongings you can say there's actually. a proper bed down there you know i my love my new stove very fitting cocktail. well. i'm now on the understanding that there's about four of us now on the understanding this for four of them now. odious lot was a little opened up yes all good old swear words board saw a few much you know what i'm gone that was open space so. there used to refer you

know i used to get cold in there at nighttime because of basic where we had our beds positions the snow would actually come up so when i walk. right in front of. me and i lose his addiction was at its strongest here he was suffering from chronic psychosis. these moxy are i would actually pick yeah. squeeze the skin thinking that there was stuff crawling on the naif my skin and if i couldn't get it out i'll get a knife and all cuts myself open yeah and then get the knife and start thinking it's hard to get these bits out mahseer nothing near the hotel is well over my chest same thing same thing just the written shreds of lakes just rip my self destructs my. you know one point i thought i was saying this but my face was one big scab. yeah it was just just

a culture like that just tell myself to shreds all die. eventually louis was picked up by an outreach team and goes into temporary accommodation he's now trying to give back by working with an organization which deals with the homeless that the local authorities can't going to help. but he's refused his mr new social he went into the street right in front of my eyes. you. know. you can be a long and painful journey away from homelessness and addiction and lunchtime moment twin brothers kevin and brian dooley they're experienced as ex junkies and they lived rough. and close traffic on the streets of some of the end of the

century. babies move the really. don't stick you much in a yard but he'll. just mean that id be good for you to get killed just moved up a little bit today these people here do nothing still they moved out yeah yeah yeah i was too slow change the bench is missing is just a boat. like the ten should be always f. ing up no special. really dangerous yet i can always population never. confessed in a very. long violent can move a few people out of here over. pagans big thing i'm out of here people pay

for food or almost kill we come off a printing press and i was one frame along here with this queer feel how i feel over the earth then you know three o'clock in the morning. kind of the early years in a row never going to know i woke up i am had been run cycling felt the money had been stolen and i was left of this one with just it was it just because of the drugs that you stay here is money. you can handle off when we got us then the one that saw. less the square piccadilly circus yeah it was right with tourists and there just waiting to get rid of all these easy bodies is fifteen years ago the brothers would fish around this area for the bride it is now this time kevin the set up a sign addiction recovery consultant says it took a terrible personal tragedy to make him turn this month around us. ok everyone

tries their way through rice in a way across the way for a woman. i am less than really. sixty four though i go for a bike i walk by myself i don't feel i am a southie dog i've written called who won over coverage i know i can so put on a venture in recovery from a veteran of the past and horse has no hope of us whether he be proud or it is the . best off the bottle it seems just finding the will to carry him the next day we drive down to kevin's home by the seaside sleepy. during a bunch of the money he has finally christmas day. as he makes me crazier stuff and i tell people if you're the star of that you're the star of the of the kitchen they made all this stuff we have to see we have to have you are you do we go to movies you do t.v. you look at you you look great. but i think. that i was willing to go.

how many meals have you done we chatted about sixty five today yes yes it would be big it's biggest. and. we might not have the most disbelief because it's. was this big deal scenario right . yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah like i'm like. christmas is a family holiday but for many years the twins of celebrate stick with those you've got nowhere else to go today is no different it's to keep a lid trimmings for everything. that.

oh wrong oh oh oh me oh my goodness they're not actually the closer they got a. good citizen. but missed out on christmas with my family but there was real christmas spirit in that as much as i hated being out in the streets i love being a consequence. i might just be a few days in this real year but it's clear that the holiday still gives people hope i've waited to open a collar been given by. a few words that reminds me just lucky i really am.

seeing. my son miss doing drugs my nephew's was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up in mish. you in waves and saved by. this is

just. seems wrong. to shape out. to come out ahead and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bushnell for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got in the time. i

mean this is the english the what you describe because it's a guy. i still does not see if. i sleep. because. i'm. not one person but go. eat a little. league.

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