Day of Emma in Hungary. This name comes from the German and refers to the German God Ermin, Irmin.
Carlos posted about a homeless person the other day and Olivier posted about international solidarity. And now I am posting about the Night of Solidarity in Budapest which was on the 17th of November. Its a night with different events, for example, this exhibition of drawings by children who tried to express how they view homeless people. The main point of the night is that, if you wanna join the movement, they encourage you to bring sleeping bags and spend one night at the underpass, as a form of demonstration with your presence, that it is time to help people who are living on the streets.
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program Budapest
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i like this kind of picture, a kind of drawing from the kids’ mind. and really an important topic for us to think of…also Lisi (http://www.HongKongdailyphoto.com from Hong Kong also posted one view about the homeless people on the street.
I think that is a phenomenon all over the world, I could see them here too. Sad view, but serious problems for the whole society,for all of us to think of the way to solve the problems, to educate them as Denten said, to help them as Zsolt said… which are the best ways to solve it?? i hope the with the time is going by, the less homeless people we will see.
jing
http://www.shanghaidailyphoto.com
What a touching drawing and also this touching thought try to go into homeless people`s distress.
Thank you for this thought-provoking post.
putting words into action, what an interesting movement!
and fantastic idea to educate the children on this social issues , i’m impressed!
I agree with Kris, that getting the children involved and aware is a great idea. So often we look for quick fixes while educating the next generation may be the best approach of all. What the Hungarian society does to show solidarity is admirable. Your post is admirable. Bravo.
that’s a touching post Zsolt.
we have name ermin, i didn’t know it was a german god =)
The display of the art itself is well-thought-out. Lisi had a man on the street, as well. Come to think of it, I think we do have homeless people in Nelson, but so far I haven’t seen one. In Auckland, I remember, the bookshop Borders used to stay open until very late, (not sure if it still does) and from about 7 or 8pm onwards, the homeless people congregated around the art books section; I didn’t know what to think because on the one hand one could not really get around them to look at the books (they don’t make way for you, either) but on the other, clearly, they were going to get thrown out when the shop closed, so these few hours were their moment of relative peace.
So I didn’t buy much, which might have been a good thing for our Visa balance anyway.
I totally agree with Kris said that put words into action. There aren’t many homeless people in Beijing, China, although there are still so many poor people in China who are living in the shed. While I was in CPT, South Africa, I saw so many poor homeless people who were living on the streets with only one thin blanket to cover themselves in cold nights, especially the children (the baby looking ones) among them, which really upsets me. It is important to make everyone to aware of it, and it is amazing idea to start with educating our children.