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🗓️ 6 January 2020
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Gary Davidge is the manager for a homeless drop-in centre of the Spitalfields Crypt Trust, in Shoreditch, London.
Every day Gary works hands-on helping the homeless community, serving some 6,000 meals to over 500 people last year. In the past decade he has introduced pre-abstinence groups and education programmes, and in the next five years plans to launch specific programs for women and addiction recovery.
In November 2019 the entire Team at London Real served Thanksgiving dinner with Gary, to over 100 people at your drop in centre.
GARY DAVIDGE:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/garydavidge
Website: https://www.sct.org.uk/
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0:00.0 | Two people every day are dying in Britain through homeless on the street. |
0:05.5 | There's no minute silence, there's no talk in the newspaper, nothing, you know. |
0:10.5 | The report says that the number of people sleeping on the streets up by 134%. |
0:16.0 | The biggest key thing to try and to change homelessness is to get as many people aware of |
0:20.6 | the whole situation in the first place. A lot of people that I have experienced |
0:24.8 | within the job in, I've never had a life that I would call a life. The government doesn't |
0:28.7 | seem to understand the problem or even measure it. Too much of a high percentage of a harmless pair pool |
0:35.2 | have the three strands. |
0:36.6 | They have the harmlessness, the mental health, |
0:39.3 | and the addiction. |
0:40.8 | You can find the homelessness in that. |
0:46.0 | That's what we don't want. |
0:48.0 | We're here to be helping encourage these guys. |
0:51.0 | Tell me about you, man, like you've been doing this for nine years, you know? |
0:54.4 | The guys like you, they trust you, they know you. |
0:57.1 | How do you keep doing this? |
0:58.4 | I'm doing it because I've lost two cousins to addictions. |
1:05.0 | My last one was the year before I lost. |
1:07.0 | He was my closest cousin that I had. |
1:10.0 | And just the addiction was too much. I have no doubt that anybody can change and when I hear that Sanso's doing this or doing that |
1:21.1 | I'm encouraged that encourages me that gives me hope hope that we can do this |
1:25.2 | a hope that people can change but I need to impart that same hope that I have for every |
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