"Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol". Monapart with Arrels Foundation

"Suffering from depression and ending up living on the street is easier than it may seem". Arrels Fundació fights every day for the number of homeless people to go down and for social awareness to go up.

Many years ago, a friend of mine was telling me that in New York -then our city-, I had a friend who told me that "Suffering from depression and ending up living on the street is easier than it may seem". We are talking about a life far from family and low intensity emotional ties, in a society where dismissal is free, eviction is quick and social services are minimal. Where suffering an episode of depression, losing one's job (and health insurance), failing to pay one's rent and ending up on the street is a sinister and perfect exercise in causality.

It is not the same here today as it was then, but it seems to want to look like...

In 2018, Arrels Fundació attended 2,341 homeless people (23% more than in 2017), visited 523 people on the street and 1,941 people passed through its open centre.

In these almost nine years in contact with the world of housing (and its absence) I have learned that alcoholism is often not the cause of homelessness but its consequence when the fear is indigestible; that there are people who wake up every morning in an ATM, get cleaned up and go to work; that - as I said before - there are people who are not only homeless but who are not homeless at all; that there are people who are not homeless at all; that there are people who are not homeless at all; that there are people who are not homeless at all. Sergio Nasarre- an unimaginable number of men living on the street do so after separation or divorce because of the impossibility of paying for a second home of their own or a room; that - as I said - they are not able to afford a second home. Miquel Fuster- the street is a form of prison that prevents you from entering (a metaphor so powerful and twisted that I can't get it out of my head); and that there are almost 3,600 homeless people living in Barcelona, of which about a thousand live on the street according to the latest nightly count by the Arrels Foundation in May 2018.

In the meantime and in 2018, Arrels Fundació has assisted 2,341 homeless people (23% more than in 2017).has visited 523 people on the street and 1,941 people have passed through its open centre, of whom 843 have used the shower service and more than a thousand have used the wardrobe or the lockers in which to deposit their belongings.

Arrels Foundation are 387 volunteers, 4,703 members and donors, 254 companies - Monapart among them (No one sleeping on the street, Day of people without a home) - and a hundred or so private initiatives and, as I was saying Jaume Sisa...

... only you are missing,
you can also come if you want, we're waiting for you, there's room for everyone.
Time does not count, nor does space,
qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol.