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  • McDonald’s You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourselves

    Well, my night took an unexpected turn! So I finished my night out, ended up in the dreaded McDonald’s queue. I couldn’t help but notice the lady in front me, all she asked for was a cup of hot water.

    The member of staff told her no. I don’t know what was going through their mind but a lady, clearly homeless was asking for a basic human right; and for a multi billion pound company, for them to say no is disgusting!

    My heart was shattered! So I spoke to her and told her to order what she wanted, expecting her to order everything. I was so shocked. She asked for a single cheese burger and that was it. We bought as much as we could carry so I knew she wasn’t going to be hungry.

    I couldn’t just leave this lady go, she was so warming and so lovely. So I sat with her, on the cold hard floor, in the middle of winter and you know what I did? I cried my eyes out.

    You know if people of Cardiff walked passed them and didn’t do anything because, financially, they weren’t in the position, I would understand. But people walked passed and laughed at them. I don’t care who you are, If this was you; and you’re reading this I hate you!

    When I got to speak to them I was genuinely shocked at their story and how educated they were! So full of life and enthusiasm and they literally have nothing!

    I invited polly and her mate back to my house and we all cooked enough food to feed them and their friends for the next few nights. We boxed them up and packed them in their bags.

    Polly and her mate have had showers, brushed their teeth and they both said they have ever felt so appreciated in their life.

    I’m no saint, but this small act of kindness cost me about £20. I know 90% of people reading this will earn about 10 times that a day.

    It costs nothing to be kind, and I genuinely hope people share this to raise awareness of homelessness throughout the UK!

    Me and polly have chatted on the phone and I’ve promised her that she will never go hungry or cold again! I’ve given her blankets, pillows and a back pack full of food.

    If you see someone on the streets, don’t look down on them like they’re nothing. You don’t know what they’ve been though! spare a little thought!

    I don’t cate if I look like shit cause I’m crying!

    Polly, you’ve changed me! ❤️❤️❤️

    Credit https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000014304854

     

  • How Did You Sleep Last Night?

    How did you sleep last night? How much did you spend on a your night out? How much was your takeaway?

    So last night while I was out in Derby with the girls! I stumbled across a kind, polite homeless man called Dwayne Padmore, 36. He was wrapped under a red blanket. Making no eye contact with the world. Just trying to stay warm and keep himself to himself.

    I asked him if he would like some food. To which he replied “Yes Please”. I got him a Tuna & Cheese foot long meal deal from Subway

    On my return I sat down with him and had a little chat and I learned his story, he has only been on the streets for 6m after losing his Property, Job and Family.

    Dwayne has 2 children, son Jack 12 and a daughter Jorja 10 and only gets to see them once a month.

    He used to be a food service chef and his hobbies are Music, Gym and Football being a life long Liverpool supporter.

    He says he spends his nights outside Farsight Recruitment Ltd in Derby, he gave no reason as to why he chose this doorway.

    Dwayne said his biggest ambition in life is to make sure his children are alright.

    The more I talked to him. The more I felt he needed some help. So if can afford to buy a round of cocktails for £30, I can afford to put this man up in a hotel for a night, with a nice hot shower, warm bed and some home comforts. Hallmark Hotel Derby Midland

    The next time you see a homeless person, Stop & Think. Every person has a story to be told. This man is pretty much my age, with two children. On the streets and in need of some help.

    I hope you slept well Dwayne and Thanks to all of you that made this mans night better!

    This is to try to raise a bit of awareness about homelessness. PLEASE SHARE

    Credit Natalie Cobden

  • It’s The Government That Caused This Not The People Fleeing Bombs

    Lauren Robson took to social media and caused a stir many people agreeing with her and saluting her words and others threatening and attacking her, some of which used racial and religious slurs.

    Robson wrote “When your grannies and your kids are dying in NHS hospitals because there isn’t any  staff – please remember it’s the government that caused this – not the people fleeing our governments bombs.

    When your kids are going to school starving because you’re a 2 kid family and you’re having to eat from food banks – please remember it’s the government that caused this – not the people fleeing our governments bombs.

    When you see homeless veterans on the streets with nowhere warm to stay for the night – please remember it’s the government that caused this – not the people fleeing our governments bombs.

    When you’re at your wits end and you see no light at the end of the tunnel and the primary mental health care team can’t give you an appt for 3 months – please remember it’s the government that caused this – not the people fleeing our governments bombs.

    When you’re lied to every day by the government and the media and you’re told there is no money to take in refugees, there is no money for our homeless, there is no money for doctors, or nurses, or teachers, or road works, or anything that the country actually needs – please remember that our government just spent £6.5 MILLION on trying to kill people and they are fucking lying to you.

    What are your thoughts do you think she has a point? Let us know your views in the comments section.

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  • Read Before You Judge- Elaine Lordan

    Elaine Lordan (Lynne Slater – Eastenders) Then & Now ** read til the end before judging her **

    I’ve seen a few really horrible, disgusting posts and comments over the last few days and it’s really shown me what a vile, self-centred, judgemental world we live in.

    From all the people who think they’re above homelessness to those who look at someone at their lowest ebb and can actually find it funny… is just abhorrent behaviour.

    It’s ok to be shocked, who wouldn’t be. These pics were designed by the media to do just that. However if I had a photo of you from 10 years ago and put it alongside one from today .. with no notice given so you could plaster your face in make up, add 42 filters or hide your actual true face by using Snapchat, How do you think you would fare in the media circus or on social media?

    Shock doesn’t give you the right to be derogatory about another at their time of need. She’s clearly already going through enough without being hounded by paparazzi and internet trolls.

    Two things which are a MAJOR contributor to suicide. Blood on many hands out there.

    Before you laugh, judge & say “omg I’d never be like that” … ask yourself if you know their full story.

    Just scraping the lid of Elaines past few years of her life ….

    1. She was sacked from the soap in 2004

    2. 2005 her mum committed suicide by leaping in front of a train

    3. Just a few months later her 1 year old son died suddenly, less than a week after his 1st birthday and a few days after Elaines wedding to the father of her child.

    4. A couple of years later she fell pregnant again but sadly had a miscarriage

    5. A year later, her dad died.

    Amongst this she had relationship troubles (as would ANYONE going through that)

    Media stuck to her tail day and night just desperate to catch her off guard and if she’s looking ‘happy’ then she’s made to look uncaring.. if she’s looking ‘sad’ then she’s made to look like she’s crumbling and weak.

    All this in around 4 short years.

    Don’t pertain to be a decent human if you can jump on the bandwagon and ridicule her. Look. Look at her face in the second pic. Look deeply, past the skin and the hollowness. Look in her eyes.

    Personally, she’s a woman I want to hug. Not because it would change her life or her problems. But because it’s what her mum would do if she were here.

    It’s what her father would do, if he were here.

    It’s what her beautiful son would do, if he were here and it’s what her beautiful unborn child would do, if they were here.

    However, they’re not. Look at your family and your kids and ask yourself if you can truly say what you would do if you lost them all one after the other.

    No-one knows what they would do.

    Instead of jumping like vultures to tear her apart further, why not use those vulture wings & turn them into angels wings.. support her and force the media to stop hounding people to the point they’ll kill themselves.

    Fight for her to get the help and assistance she needs before it’s too late.

    I’m sorry, but I won’t have blood on my hands by hounding people to the point of death. Will you?

    credit  Caz Lucas

  • Being A Vegetarian Ruined My Childhood

    So my parents always did what THEY thought was right, but being a vegetarian ruin my childhood.

    Now you may think ruined is a bit extreme but I genuinely feel it did, let me explain why.

    School was a nightmare whilst my friends all had tasty delights in their packed lunches or got to eat shepherd pie or lasagna from the school canteen, I was left with chick peas, a vegetarian cold pasta dish and fruit.

    Now okay that’s not completely terrible some of the meals were very tasty but as a child when friends had birthdays and brought in cakes or sweets the teacher would always have to check if I could have it, this caused me great embarrasment.

    Soon my friends began noticing how different I was, going to a friends party and having to bring my own food I soon got nicknamed “Carrot”, “Rabbit” and “freak”.

    I stopped being invited to parties, my mum was always so vocal about me being a vegetarian and soon other parents didn’t want the responsibility of monitoring me and making sure I wasn’t sneaking sausage rolls and pizza slices.

    I craved to be normal, I wanted to eat the food my friends ate, I didn’t want to read labels, I didn’t want to be different.

    I pleaded with my parents to allow me to eat normally but their beliefs were too strong.

    I found myself craving meat, and would often steal from my classmates lunch boxes, even go so far as steal from my local village store.

    My whole existence was thinking about how I could get more of the tasty delights which were forbidden, and how I could escape my family and life.

    By the time I was a teenager I was seriously depressed, self harming and my education was failing.

    At age 16 I hadn’t passed a single Gsce, I had no friends and no life, I left my parents home and slept on the streets.

    Homeless but happy, I found myself on them cold dark streets, I vowed to be a better me.

    A charity called Shelter (http://www.shelter.org.uk/ ) helped me get a bed sit, I found work and eventually found love.

    Fifteen years later I am the proud father of two, I let them make their own life choices and have never been happier.

    I rekindled my relationship with my parents for the sake of my children but I cannot forgive them for pushing their beliefs on me, so yes being a vegetarian ruined my childhood.

     

     

  • My Mother Should Have Aborted Me

     

    My mother should have aborted me

    The statement my mother should have aborted me may shock some people, but this is how I truly feel, everyone would have been better off had I never been born.

    My mum contemplated having me aborted but decided the money she would receive for my existence was worth bringing me into the world.

    I was never loved nor wanted growing up, my mum could barely say my name, birthdays were non existant and love was something I did not know, pain and misery were the only things my mother ever shoe me.

    My mother was a single woman but had a constant array of partners, I was raped for the first time aged around 6, and regularly throughout my childhood.

    Mum would never attend my school events or show any interest in me, I would often go hungry and scavenge through bins or steal from people’s packed lunches.

    My clothes were hand me downs, more like tattered rags only fit for the bottom of an old dogs bed.

    School was hard, I was an outcast, a misfit, not good enough to be anyone’s friend, not academic, not sporty, not pretty, a poor loner.

    By 16 I had dropped out of education which meant I was no longer a financial use for my mother, I was cast aside to fend for myself.

    Homeless and scared I was a target for violence and sexual abuse yet again, eventually I was placed in a dirty bed sit, surrounded by drug users and vagrants.

    I have always been unwanted, a waster, a woman of no worth.

    So yes I wish I had of been aborted then my life would have not been one of misery, one of pain and one of self loathing.

    I am finally at the age of 27 getting some support from my husband, I have cut of my mum completely from my life, my demons still haunt me and I suffer from depression, I am yet to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I do not see how I will ever recover nor a bright shining future but I will carry on this existence in the hope that one day, some how I recover enough to be able to bring life into this world and give my child the Up bringing I was never entitled to have.

    If you need help please see: https://rapecrisis.org.uk/  or https://www.samaritans.org/

    Read similiar story here: http://mums-advice-old-copy.local/i-wish-my-son-was-never-born/

  • Where Is Humanity?

    Photographer A.J. Laberinto took photos that will send shivers down your spine and make you be thankful for where you live.

    In May 2014, a photographer was strolling along the streets of Manila in the Philippines. Even though this moment was captured years ago — it’s still chilling to watch.


    The photos are difficult to look at, but they need to be seen and need to be shared; awareness of this cold and dark moment in humanity needs to be spread.


    A naked toddler was sleeping in the middle of a bustling public staircase not one person paying any attention, this child wasn’t anyone to them.



    Laberinto was completely stunned by the lack of humanity that he was witnessing. Not one single person walking by even gave the baby a second glance. They are so used to homeless and begging children, this was normal. It’s hard to think that this is happening during this day and age.

    The photographer said:

    “There I was, camera–celfone rather, in hand turning around the corner when I saw the child. You see, only recently I’ve been taking pictures of whatever sight was in front of me strolling around Manila though not that many. So there I was, and for several seconds the baby lay there on the floor not dying but rather sound asleep. The passers-by having seen too many too much of street children and beggars knew already how to react: they just walked away. After having finished taking the photos I then asked some familiar faces in the crowd, people who actually lived near those stairs, as to where the parent of that baby was. Lo and behold, a woman somewhat bedraggled with dirty clothes on showed up and immediately carried the baby away. All of this in a span of seconds. I bought the child food, by the way, four days ago and he’s still living in the streets the very bed to sleep in he ever knew.“


    Share these powerful images and be sure to spread some kindness today. Be the positivity we need in the world.