The Ministry of Poverty Alleviation has come forward to assist two homeless people who desperately need a home after a concerned citizen contacted us through the Hands Across Fiji Facebook page which has been launched by Legend FM, FM 96, Navtarang, Radio Sargam, Viti FM, and Fijivillage.
Hands Across Fiji Facebook Page connects people who need assistance in their own areas to those wanting to assist them, after the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Poverty Alleviation, Jennifer Poole says they should be able to temporarily house the two homeless people who have been staying at a bus stop in front of Mobil Service Station along Jerusalem Road in Suva since December last year.
Poole says they will temporarily house them until they find a permanent solution.
She says the report has been referred to the Department of Social Welfare.
Poole says the Director for Social Welfare is also monitoring the issue and they are looking into how they can resolve it.
She says their teams will go out and interview the two people and assess the situation.
The plight of the two homeless people was shared with us by a concerned citizen.
The concerned citizen says she and her team normally assist the two men aged 55 and 49 years with meals as they do not have any home or source of income.
They told Fijivillage News that they used to sleep outside a building in Toorak but because there were a lot of people sleeping there, they moved to the bus stop along Jerusalem Road.
The 49-year old says he was 8-years-old when his mother passed away and since then he has been sleeping on the streets.
He says he and his mother were renting and after his mother died, he did not have any source of income to pay rent.
The 49-year old says they do not have any close family members and they have never worked anywhere.
He further says people provide them with meals sometimes and if they do not get anything during the day, they just drink water and sleep.
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