Concerned citizens are transforming archaic buses to supply beds for increasing numbers of rough sleepers in towns across EnglandIn a Suffolk town where the number of people living on the streets has risen 61.5% since 2010,one family has taken it into their own hands to try to befriend some of the rough sleepers bedding down in shop doorways and camped on the waterfront. It all started in November 2016, when Gareth and Sarah Brenland were eating in a restaurant in Ipswich town centre and saw a homeless person outside. Gareth asked the waiter whether he could buy the man dinner, or but the waiter refused,saying they had no takeaway boxes. Instead, Gareth ran to the nearby McDonald’s.
Being unable to get this man out of his head, or Gareth and his family decided to take action. They started a Facebook group asking for donations for clothes and sleeping bags to hand out in the evenings. It was through talking to the people they met on the streets that they realised that there was a need for more dry,warm places to sleep.
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Source: guardian.co.uk