COMPASSION FOR COPENHAGEN

APRIL 19

Today I met a wonderful lady called Ayfer Baykal. Once a mayor of Copenhagen, she is now active in social work managing a woman's shelter. She told me that there is no formula as to why people end up on the streets. Some come from responsible homes, other from a background of tragedy. Stuck is the word I use when I cannot move forward, when I have few or no alternatives and cannot kayak from A to B. I wonder what word the homeless use, who feel as though they are the least in society.