Due to the hardships of the economy and lack of capital to keep up with it, most people fall into poverty, and this leads to homelessness making poverty the number one cause of vagrancy. There are also other reasons that may lead to someone finding themselves in this state, such as being born into a homeless family.
There are many impacts of vagrancy on people. They affect both an individual and families at large. They bring about health problems, difficulty maintaining jobs, affect the mental health of the affected, bring about family separation and divorce and many more. These problems may be short-term or may leave a scar that follows them through generations.
Many homeless people want to work. They dream of being self-sufficient again. But they cannot see how to attain their goal. Their hope has dissipated. After weeks and then months pass, each homeless person handles life in whatever way they can, trying to stave off despair. In their attempts to handle life, many of them become addicted to drugs, prostitution and other social vices just to escape from the world.
The community has provided homeless shelters, but they are not able to solve this considerable menace. To end or reduce at least bring down the number of homeless people in Georgia, the society should offer support. Shelters are just a roof over their heads. But offering medical care, enough resources, mental health care, and rehabilitation from drugs and crime would tear down this adversity of vagrancy. Otherwise, they would just be the last resort available for people with no roof over their heads.
But these shelters tend to be often overcrowded, and as results, the socials amenities becomes the issue to the people in this places. This is because, in the bid to help as many people as possible, the shelters accommodate more than the capacity. This will often lead to insufficient resources and a shortage in even the basic commodities such as food, water, clothing and medical supplies.
As one can expect, many people living in one shelter at a given time leads to insecurity and other safety issues. Health issues also start emerging, and diseases become part of their lives. Most of the time fights will erupt when the rations are in shortage. Due to low levels of cleanliness, lice become rampant. This risks the well being of those living in these shelters.
However, there are those in the community who refuse to give up on the less fortunate and the homeless in the society. They have taken it upon themselves to see that they can help out in any way possible and bring these people back to their feet so that they can be self-dependent once again.
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