The scene that man carry kit bags or plastic bags with full of plastic bottles or delve food from the trash can find easily in Thailand especially in Bangkok. Those people are known as ‘homeless people’. Some homeless people are drunk, dirty and have a disease.
The homeless people are not only adults but also children. They live in the public place and sleep at bus stop, sidewalk, railway station, park, etc. As the latest exploration of Nation Statistical Office in year 2008, there’re about 30,000 homeless people who are living around big city especially Bangkok. That’s a large amount of number, which seems to be a big problem in Thailand. The homeless people are disgusted and look down by others in society but they don’t think that homeless people are like human who need four requisites, which are food, medicine, clothes and habitation, and how do they live without home. In Bangkok, you can see them at Sapanput, Hua Lumphong Station, Mo Chit Station, Lumpini Park, under motorway and under the bridge but the most popular place of homeless people is SanamLuang. You can see them sell the plastic paper, which is use instead of mat at SanamLuang. Some of them collect the bottles and can to but some food but if they can’t sell them they will not have a meal. And the cost of the cans or bottle is only 0.50 baht for each and 1 baht for a plastic bottle. Because they have no money, they have only one meal per day or fast. Another way to survive is begging the food from the monk that means they wait until the monk finish his meal. Moreover there’s a group of those people who have their job but they have no home such as security guard, balloon seller, handbill, distributer, etc.
As I observe, most of them don’t talk to me or some of them try to refuse that they are not homeless people until I found Sunee Meechana or Nok, a homeless woman who collect the plastic bottle at SanamLuang, 38 years old. She told me that it is the ordinarythat the homeless people don’t disclose themselves because they are frightened to be detained in poorhouse. They don’t want to stay there because they are compelled to do anything so they feel uncomfortable. They choose to sleep at roadside, under bridge and park nore than live in poorhouse.
The causes, which make them decide to be homeless people, are poverty, running away from home, old prisoner, unemployed, debtor, vicked people but the family problem is found most. Like uncle Yai, he seems to be the oldest homeless person at SanamLuang. He told me that he was born at Lopburi. He has 4 brothers and 3 sisters. When he was young, he was a bad boy. He didn’t go to school and he was a pickpocket. Last time that he was caught, he was abused by polices then he reform and quit pickpocket because he don’t want to be an old prison. He has started living at SanamLuang for 10 years and sell the amulet for survive. His niece used to take him home but he was fly out because the others in that house don’t like him, they were ironic and disgust him so he doesn’t want to make them annoy.
Every organization tries to solves this problem but this problem will not disappear if you still ignore and disgust them like they are useless, to give them a chance to work is another way to solve this problem. You should think that they are human like us. Everybody was born as a human has equally right the status ‘homeless’ is undeniable for him or her. If they can choose, they would like to have their own home. Besides, the major cause of this problem is come from the deficient of a family. Nowadays, everybody concern only their duty and sometimes they look over taking care the member in their family. The parents may give their children only money but don’t take care them enough that may occur an inferiority complex for them which convey to the addiction problem and end at leaving their home. If ‘home’ can’t make you feel happy, so which place in this world would make you happy?
The homeless people are not only adults but also children. They live in the public place and sleep at bus stop, sidewalk, railway station, park, etc. As the latest exploration of Nation Statistical Office in year 2008, there’re about 30,000 homeless people who are living around big city especially Bangkok. That’s a large amount of number, which seems to be a big problem in Thailand. The homeless people are disgusted and look down by others in society but they don’t think that homeless people are like human who need four requisites, which are food, medicine, clothes and habitation, and how do they live without home. In Bangkok, you can see them at Sapanput, Hua Lumphong Station, Mo Chit Station, Lumpini Park, under motorway and under the bridge but the most popular place of homeless people is SanamLuang. You can see them sell the plastic paper, which is use instead of mat at SanamLuang. Some of them collect the bottles and can to but some food but if they can’t sell them they will not have a meal. And the cost of the cans or bottle is only 0.50 baht for each and 1 baht for a plastic bottle. Because they have no money, they have only one meal per day or fast. Another way to survive is begging the food from the monk that means they wait until the monk finish his meal. Moreover there’s a group of those people who have their job but they have no home such as security guard, balloon seller, handbill, distributer, etc.
As I observe, most of them don’t talk to me or some of them try to refuse that they are not homeless people until I found Sunee Meechana or Nok, a homeless woman who collect the plastic bottle at SanamLuang, 38 years old. She told me that it is the ordinarythat the homeless people don’t disclose themselves because they are frightened to be detained in poorhouse. They don’t want to stay there because they are compelled to do anything so they feel uncomfortable. They choose to sleep at roadside, under bridge and park nore than live in poorhouse.
The causes, which make them decide to be homeless people, are poverty, running away from home, old prisoner, unemployed, debtor, vicked people but the family problem is found most. Like uncle Yai, he seems to be the oldest homeless person at SanamLuang. He told me that he was born at Lopburi. He has 4 brothers and 3 sisters. When he was young, he was a bad boy. He didn’t go to school and he was a pickpocket. Last time that he was caught, he was abused by polices then he reform and quit pickpocket because he don’t want to be an old prison. He has started living at SanamLuang for 10 years and sell the amulet for survive. His niece used to take him home but he was fly out because the others in that house don’t like him, they were ironic and disgust him so he doesn’t want to make them annoy.
Every organization tries to solves this problem but this problem will not disappear if you still ignore and disgust them like they are useless, to give them a chance to work is another way to solve this problem. You should think that they are human like us. Everybody was born as a human has equally right the status ‘homeless’ is undeniable for him or her. If they can choose, they would like to have their own home. Besides, the major cause of this problem is come from the deficient of a family. Nowadays, everybody concern only their duty and sometimes they look over taking care the member in their family. The parents may give their children only money but don’t take care them enough that may occur an inferiority complex for them which convey to the addiction problem and end at leaving their home. If ‘home’ can’t make you feel happy, so which place in this world would make you happy?