Global News by Tag: homeless
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Mariuca Niculae, 75, is waiting in the hall of the Regina Maria Social Polyclinic in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. She says she is at the clinic because she suffers from “terrible heartaches.”
“It’s like a claw,” she says, describing the pain. “It never goes away.”
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – The Bagmati River, which flows through Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city, is considered a holy river in Hinduism, the country’s majority religion. But passersby say the stench of its pollution makes them cover their noses thanks in part to an increasing population of landless people who squat along its banks.
Sita Chamar, whose family lives in a small hut in the Bagmati settlement, says local squatters are accustomed to the pollution and stinking garbage.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Sujan Satar wakes up at the crack of dawn from his open bed on the pavement of a city sidewalk in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, to the sounds of horns and vehicles. Today is his 15th birthday.
DELHI, INDIA – Delhi has been unusually cold this winter. The cold is particularly merciless at nights, at times dipping below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. At 11 p.m. it’s time to go to bed for Farman, a local street child. He walks toward a corner under the flyover, or overpass, and hurls himself under a tattered jacket, his only piece of warm clothing.
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA -- Broke and disabled, he left his home village, Samfya, for the big city in search of help. He ended up a beggar.
Fred Kafupi, 58, is a nomad. He struggles to maneuver his broken wheelchair to the markets and through the streets of Lusaka, Zambia’s capital city. Kafupi has been disabled for nearly a decade. A stroke left him broke, homeless and alone. He says the stroke damaged his spine and paralyzed his right arm.
ACCRA, GHANA -- Throngs of people march through the Makola market to trotro (public transportation) stations. It is 5 p.m. and people are heading home after work. Young and old bodies are shoved as many rush through the thick human traffic.
With her frail frame, Abiba, 14, wanders through the crowd carrying her pan and feeling the pangs of hunger. Hard work has formed beads of sweat on her face and dust is caked on her feet after moving from one corner of the market to the other, carrying loads for people during the day.