Webquest The invisible

people
Johannesburg South Africa


Johanna, Clmentine, Naomi, Soraya
The city of Johannesburg
Largest city of South
Africa
Current capital of
Gauteng
4.4 million people
The most spoken
languages are Isizulu
and English
What is a homeless person ?
No home
No roof over their
head
Sleep on the streets
May also to be
considered to be
homeless because
you do not have any
rights to stay
Some gures
About 1200 to 4500 people are
homeless
800000 people are not living in ideal
conditions
The majority of homeless people are
aged between 21 and 34 years old
Kind of people who are more
vulnerable to homelessness
Young person
Offender leaving prison
Pregnant
Person who lives on benets
Person who has a low salary
Asylum seeker
Foreigner
Most common situation
Inability to obtain social security benets
Lack of affordable housing
Domestic violence
Family disintegration
Unemployment
Fleeing persecution from another country
Drug and alcohol misuse
Mental health problems
Main difculties
Low temperatures at
night
Harassment from the
police
Fierce ghting for
the pavement space
Chased out of the
public toilet
Hunger
Effects of being homeless
Adults
Cannot vote
Living in temporary
accomodation
Poor physical and
mental health
Problems with drugs
and alcohol
Children
Severe disruption to
schooling
Bad inuences on
behaviour
Stammering and
speech problems
Ways to manage to survive day to
day
Panhandle
Eat whatever you nd
Go to the church to warm yourself
Meet others to discuss ways of ekking
out a living
Associations who help the
homeless
NGOs
Help people : reunite
families
Try to stop children from
begging on the streets
Homeless Talk
Non-prot organization
Rev Diane Wicks
Sell newspapers
Associations who help the
homeless
Jersey4jozi
Give sweaters to
homeless people
Try to give them a
better life
Antony Sithole, 20 years
old. Happy the be warm
now. He was looking for
work and now he is a
painter and an artist
Mercy Johannesburg
Food, support packages
3 shelters
Try to get the homeless
to be independent

Associations who help the
homeless
HEI
Volunteer student
Coffee shop
The customers can buy
the second hand
furniture sold by the
shop
Works of art made by
the homeless are also
sold
Churches
Between 500 and 800
people sleep there each
night
Medical
Food
Thalente
Biyela
From Durban, South Africa
Was a homeless child in
Johannesburg
Has an unexplainable talent
in skateboarding
Was noticed by lmmakers/
professionals
Qualies for a U.S. Athletes
Visa
Got the Visa and he is now
in Los Angeles
Mzungeni
Ngcombo
Lives in Denver, Johannesburg,
in an informal settlement
Reports having lived there for
20 years
Says that it is very hard and
often dangerous to keep warm
in the winter because the re
get out of control easily
Says he sees many people die
each year from cold, sickness,
malnutrition, res, etc.
Reports that people living in
this settlement feel quite
abandoned and that they are
willing to get jobs but
oftentimes there is nothing
available to them
These people do not have much
hope of getting a better life
Obed
Middle aged Zimbabwean
Ended up at the Strabane Mercy Center
Was almost dying and HIV positive
It was thought that he might live for a
week
Miraculously recovered from his bout of
sickness
Now has a job as a chef in a restaurant
located in a town near Johannesburg