No home, no love?

No home, no love?

Homelessness is very common around the UK. There are approximately 3.5 million people without a home and most of them are hidden homelessness. For example people pretend to be homeless when they are not and they stay in hostels, squats, B&B Accommodations or stay with friends or family.

Charities like Emmanuel House in Oxford take up to 60-90 visitors every single day. Over 2000 people come to Emmanuel house and over 200 new visitors each year.

Charities help over 150,000 young children as well as adults over England and wales approached authorities for help because they are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

The average age of a homeless person is as young as 9 years old to the age of 35.

We went around our school asking people for their personal opinions about Homelessness

First up is Arron: He said that he doesn’t really like seeing homeless people sufferer and that he would rather give people food instead of money. The reason for this is because Arron doesn’t want them to buy drugs, cigarettes, and things that might put their life in danger.

Next we interviewed our teacher Mrs Freshwater: Her opinion on the topic is that it is a big problem especially in the UK. Also she doesn’t think that people are faking it and pretending that their poor and that they       

Thirdly we interviewed Allen and Amelia there point of view was that everyone deserves to have the right to have a house to be clean have food and water it’s a simple right that everyone should have and that when they walk past a homeless person they  feels like giving them money to have a brighter future.

It is clear that students at Bluecoat Academy care deeply about the state of homelessness, and consider it a joy to help homeless charities on their regular "Charity Wednesday" fundraisers.

Report written by Alex and Sophie