The displaced

This week, I am meeting with one of the other girls from the communication team and we are planning the structure of a short film about some of the projects we have been to. Tomorrow morning, we plan to go to the city soup kitchen to interview some of the volunteers; most of these are older women who have been helping out for years but there are younger helpers too as well as the usual spread of foreign volunteers. A good idea would be to shadow them for a while, find out what makes them come back and perhaps how it has improved in recent years. There are so many homeless people in parks, squares and city doorways. You can also guarantee a few subte (underground) beggars, most of whom seem to be suffering from illnesses. One man got on the tube with his son yesterday and was asking for money. Upon closer inspection, I realised the little boy was blind and they were trying to save money for his treatment. Eye-opening, humbling and extremely sad. This city has many sides.