YMCA Family Center

I’ve watched a documentary about homeless people. It was about an organization where they help homeless families. They have spent more than 1 million dollars for this place where 50 homeless family can live. In August 18 they had over 100 families who lived there. They take care of families so they have a place to stay! It has happened more than a thousand times that a family has showed up and they hadn’t enough place for them so they had to say no. They had to make other arrangements, talk to motels and hotels. Most of the families have kids, one of the parents have lost his or hers job and obviously they had to sell their house because they hadn’t enough income. Certainly one parents income wasn’t enough to support one family. All the kids love the YMCA Family Center since they can play with other kids in the kids club. Approximately 1.5 million children are homeless each year. 

I was scared how it was gonna be like here, said one of the children who now lives at the YMCA Family Center. Now she is cheerful every time she goes to the kids club to meet all the other kids. 

The parents to the kids often say they don’t want to tell their kids the truth, that they actually are homeless. To raise a family with nothing, not even a home or enough money to buy anything to their kids, takes immeasurable strength. At the Family Center they get some help to get back on the road, maybe get a job or so. 
But most of the parents still believe that the best way to get trough every day is to smile. 


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