در ثروتمندترین شهر دنیادر ثروتمندترین کشور دنیا یعنی نیویورک و امریکا 1.700.000 نفر زیر خط فقر زندگی می کنند . 19 هزار کودک شبها در پناهگاه ( شلتر) می خوابند. ظرفیت 40 هزار نفری پناهگاه ها پر است . در شهری که شهردارش امریکایی اسراییلی ثروتش 35 میلیارد دلار است. یک میلیون دانشجو در سراسر امریکا بدون مکان هستند . چگونه می شود باور کرد وقتی امریکا برای مردم خودش ارزشی قائل نیست برای مردم ایران دلش بسوزد؟
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NEW YORK—Naaliyah is making a game of it, this concrete curb on the edge of American despair.
Hopping up, hopping down, then three twirls at the bottom of the steps of the building that makes her mother cry. And smiling all the while, lost in the wonder of her 5-year-old imagination.
“She loves coming here. I just don’t understand it,” says Shanta Minkens, 27, laughing through her tears at the entrance to New York’s family intake centre, the last hope for families evicted from their homes. “You’d think it was Chuck E. Cheese.”
A small blessing. But as the laughter passes, a discouraging silence returns. And Shanta doesn’t notice that her daughter has stopped her game. For a fleeting moment Naaliyah stands still and stares grimly at her mother, their faces mirrors of mutual woe.
Homeless since July when they lost their apartment in the Bronx, mother and daughter are doing the shelter shuffle now. First it was an emergency facility in Queens. Then the city moved them briefly to another in the Bronx.
READ MORE: 30 days in the U.S.A. video interactive
And now they have been told they must move again — this time to a shelter in Harlem. The decision came down here, as they always do, at the seven-storey headquarters of PATH, the city-run Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing Bureau on 121st St. East in the Bronx.
It’s a school day and Naaliyah should be sitting with her Grade 1 classmates. Instead, it appears a switch to a third public school in as many weeks is imminent.
“Everything that happens here is designed to discourage us. We’ve come 19 times since July, trying to meet the requirements. And they just keep moving us,” says Minkens.
“I can’t get discouraged. But I can’t keep going through this. I’ve got to get her settled somehow.”
Homelessness is as old as New York City. But not since the Great Depression have there been this many Naaliyahs in the bitter core of the Big Apple.
A staggering 19,000 children stay in shelters each night, according to the city’s own data for September, part of a total shelter population topping a record 41,000.
Children becoming new face of New York’s homeless
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Fashionistas pose for photographs in front of a homeless man
outside Moynihan Station following a showing of the Rag & Bone
Spring/Summer 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week, Sept. 7.
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By Mitch Potter
Washington Bureau
Hopping up, hopping down, then three twirls at the bottom of the steps of the building that makes her mother cry. And smiling all the while, lost in the wonder of her 5-year-old imagination.
“She loves coming here. I just don’t understand it,” says Shanta Minkens, 27, laughing through her tears at the entrance to New York’s family intake centre, the last hope for families evicted from their homes. “You’d think it was Chuck E. Cheese.”
A small blessing. But as the laughter passes, a discouraging silence returns. And Shanta doesn’t notice that her daughter has stopped her game. For a fleeting moment Naaliyah stands still and stares grimly at her mother, their faces mirrors of mutual woe.
Homeless since July when they lost their apartment in the Bronx, mother and daughter are doing the shelter shuffle now. First it was an emergency facility in Queens. Then the city moved them briefly to another in the Bronx.
READ MORE: 30 days in the U.S.A. video interactive
And now they have been told they must move again — this time to a shelter in Harlem. The decision came down here, as they always do, at the seven-storey headquarters of PATH, the city-run Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing Bureau on 121st St. East in the Bronx.
It’s a school day and Naaliyah should be sitting with her Grade 1 classmates. Instead, it appears a switch to a third public school in as many weeks is imminent.
“Everything that happens here is designed to discourage us. We’ve come 19 times since July, trying to meet the requirements. And they just keep moving us,” says Minkens.
“I can’t get discouraged. But I can’t keep going through this. I’ve got to get her settled somehow.”
Homelessness is as old as New York City. But not since the Great Depression have there been this many Naaliyahs in the bitter core of the Big Apple.
A staggering 19,000 children stay in shelters each night, according to the city’s own data for September, part of a total shelter population topping a record 41,000.
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