Used to drive buses now got hit by a one - homeless Julian from Romania - London, England

 Julian, used to make £3500 a month as a bus driver but he liked alcohol better. Recently he got hit by a bus. Julian did not like the hospital so he decided to run away.

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.alright folks we are here with Julian who's been on the streets how long you've been on the streets my friend well for exactly on this month I have this month I have two and a half two yeah two and a half two and a half no two months and half I have but in this country I have nearly 15 years okay all together 15 years but you've been working for most of the time wow I have uh I work last time I worked for the bus for the bus company the bus company are working because I have driver license like you're mechanic [Music] yeah he's actually at the bathroom at the moment because he's had a form of a breakdown but yeah I've ended up in in London alcoholism my parents were drinkers themselves West Africa the system's broken I'll pay tax all my life in the UK yeah born in the UK I ran an events company big company [Music] and now uh I go I go the crisis first time because Christ is the charity organization no she did not give me a chance that's why I make the make the crazy and I drink too much you drink too much yeah I drink too much because I want to die why is that I I want to die all right you lost interest in in your life in the life yes exactly yes I want to die is is no important for me if you I go more than I go more than for what for nothing I don't like it stay in the street make one piece one pound I don't like it I know I can go straight to it can you give me a little bit food I don't like it why don't you get that job and do what you used to do to be be a bus driver yeah exactly you know is exactly is good but the the start with sentiment for me is for six months I I don't count take the job why why if you've been in the UK for 15 years you you've got to have a settle stages exactly settle settings but I lost I lost the UK 2020 for three months I lost the UK you left yeah yeah back to Romania yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I lost three months and uh but that doesn't make a difference yeah yeah yeah and and the cancer the the the council say you you need you need to tell you proof 2020 for 2000 21 31 December Utica group UV here inside the UK and now I can't tell so you have no settled status at the moment yeah for the moment I have only only provide I have a problem said I don't can't uh start to work I have only provide all right my friend and I I want to drink I want to drink drinks drink drinks nearly diet I want to drink nearly die how much do you drink a day I know I know one a lion who sometime sometimes I drink I show you [Music] I mean sometimes I know I know want to I have no one to rely on sometimes you see or either use the side there yeah I have two bottles of cider no no all right no no this one is for last night all right this bottle is for last night and I have this bottle for in the morning if he exactly me I know drinks I don't know what's happening for my body you can add more drinks I nearly died that's why so you drink cider and you drink a bottle of cider a day something like that no something something like that because I know liar because I believe in the God I know I am something if you I I see you in the street one bottle uh cider beer vodka I take it I dream okay yeah and anything goes yeah as long as it's up yeah yeah everything I dreamed everything but I uh I want to stop I want to stop but nobody nobody no help me I I want to stop the alcohol I want to finish I want to same before I like that rich man you know she paid for Me 3 200 pounds the bus only six hours working five day per week is that what you used to get three thousand pounds and we um three thousand three thousand and two hundred pounds per per month yeah I I want to start again but no nobody no help me have you got any other substance uh like abuse problems like uh no I know no smoke never you never said no what about drugs only only alcohol I dreams marijuana win everything and not touch it I see you in Justice I know only alcohol only that's it I got you happen on your phone my friend here yeah accident accident yeah so what what happened there man so you had an accident yeah a bike accident you were on a bike right yes the drive for uh London Bridgestone and the bike she bring the the the police and and a car hit you where you were on a bike no she's going she she left yeah she she lived and you what did you end up on the street did you end up in the hospital in the hospital yeah yeah I stay in the on the hospital three four hours and I I ran and you run away yeah I around on the way around around all right that's why you've got yeah yeah yeah yeah that's why I going around because my my hair is very bad if you're not drinks water alcohol is very very very bad oh I see yeah he wanted to drink so much have a drink that you just only stop you push me stop she need to fix it here for store I want to stop I want I want to stop but nobody no help me if she only fix that heel and enough stop but nobody no no one has helped me that's why all right Julian so how can we help is there a phone number your phone number email or Facebook how can people contact you and maybe support you somehow so you will stop drinking basically because I I want to stop I thought to God I want to stop a good worker I have driving for Buzz only only I lost my wife is married I lost this and this life and this life you had a wife and you lost your wife she left you when was that and she's married now did you say yeah she remarried and that broke you down kind of when was that and tell us more about it please five days back what do you mean five days five days but five days ago yeah it doesn't make any sense have you got children Julian are you crying Julian sorry to hear that we're all going through hard times at times so please cheer up tell us more what happened you know one time one time I want to I want to help for everybody but if you stay in the cookware nobody will help you nobody has nobody who will help you if you see you in the concrete nobody okay have you got children I have three kids three kids with your wife yeah take your life are they in the UK I have on the gay only one is for uh uh London come from Jackson I have one one lady from clap on Jackson okay you're right yeah she's married you see my mom she know she no like at you I don't can't respect you so my my my heart I believe you I give you food 17 years I give you food and now you you say you speak to me 17 years you give food to your wife yeah and now after 17 years she left and and my kids and my kids if I ring you now nobody knows help me eat for what yeah so I I just I want to die yes I want to I want to die what I don't can't speak in English how I can't speak in English exactly for the the small kids and after his big kiss I give you food I give you everything and now for father no give nothing for what this happened okay cool and so is there anything you would like to say to people maybe your wife is watching this would you like to say that you may say that in Romanian because we're just about to finish I think no you don't want to ask her for forgiveness and you want her back I I ask I asked but uh no [Music] I I don't say under God give me free because I can't work I can't I can't make money I must say give me free I have four days four days and no teeth nothing four days four days I'm not here are you hungry now only only I drink alcohol are you hungry now I've got food here if you want four days yes little bit bread I know you eat it I know touch it legit little bit I know tattoo only alcohol I think you know hungry you just drink I'm very hungry I'm very hungry but I not understand why the people she no give me or she no give me for a chance to start to to work do you want food yes you have yeah you got a role for you thank you so much you don't want sausage just bread okay well I'm glad I could help you giving you a little bread at least Juliana all right while you are in Croydon why here why not you said you used to live in Brickstone why you moved from Brixton to Croydon [Music] what's happening there what's happening oh you've got a book there you want to show us brilliant married before here okay this is your papers that that you've got a hostel in Croydon right yeah all right that's why because you got a hostel in Croydon okay and all these papers what what Pipers are those it's like enough man that's confidential I wouldn't show this on a camera if I was you okay that's all your documents in your rucksack here on the streets okay okay man you don't show this enough enough this is as confidential it's your private stuff okay all right folks if you've got any questions for Julian let me know I see Julian frequently on the streets of Croydon I might ask him and well let's get back to Julian Julian yeah we'll be just we'll be finishing the interview is there anything else you would like to say if you want to say anything else let's do it now because what what what I do I need to say I mean advice for people yeah yeah yeah young people are drinking yeah if young people are drinking or have alcohol problems I know you're not the person to give them advice because you still have that problem but just say how bad is alcohol is the alcohol did alcohol ruin your life it's like yeah it's a new one it's not good yeah it's nobody and and for this lab if you if you sleep outside no if you sleep outside how you you can't Another Gay wake up if you know drones I see I see so you drink to drink the sorrow of Sorrow yeah yeah your life yeah I know in the streets I I work I work two days and I I buy one bike and the God she she taking me for what you know nearly died yesterday nearly died the one car pushed me on the floor and nobody nobody nobody no no hurt me you know nobody know helped me nobody helped you understand so much my phone broke the bike only dirty the because my head is dirty you know who pay for me I started to hate that you know you know and who who helped me who helped me okay say one day I'm sure I'm sure if you stayed on in the hospital man they would somebody would look after you we are in the UK This brilliant Social Service here and they would help it you know what the hostel is I see I think I see look here why you why you keep that on what's you see I think two days two days I Stay nobody will give me little bit water but there's water in a sink in the hostel in it he reads English no I go eat water okay you know I know say about food nobody not get food nobody oh Street streets anyways Julian it was good to talk to you and I hope to see you well I hope not to see you here but I hope all the best for you please don't drink as much get yourself sorted get back to your family uh streets I know how good I know it's warm and nice now but the winter is coming first half chance all right my friend see you soon all the best tomorrow you're coming yeah I'm always around for another

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Tales from the streets - Meet Mark - homeless alcoholic

 

Mark comes from Southampton, he has been homeless in London for about 2 years. He comes from dysfunctional family and is an alcoholic. Check this out!

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Right folks we are here with Mark who's been on the Streets of London for how long a good year and a half to two years right now since about 2020 start of the pandemic but well when it was beginning

ended up on the street well to begin with it was all sort of when I was born it was childhood issues and stuff and like did you grow up in like dysfunctional family or something like that sort of yes but it was a dysfunctional family based around addictions and alcoholism my parents were drinkers themselves

West Africa tongo yeah exactly yes the system's broken I'll pay tax all my life in the UK yeah born in the UK I ran an events company big company and kovid obviously it wiped it out yeah what happened did you oh

ended up using crack drugs hello how are you tired I'm cold and tight how was last night cold it's very cold last night pretty cold last night yeah yeah so you slept here and I out where it's Archie Arctic in hospital what happened it's got a testified very bad chest infection very bad chest infection and he ended up in hospital you're on your own yeah

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um that is one of the main problems that a lot of homelessness people go through whether it's alcohol drugs it could even be simple things like gambling or not especially nowadays with the way that the government is with everything with the cost of living but not even being able to pay their own rent and anything like that it's even another reason why it's very hard to get off the street because you need to sign up to benefits and everything like that if you haven't got a bank card or anything like that you can't get onto your benefits because they won't pay into anything else they might give you cash in hand payments anymore nowadays and it's just a difficult system to break out of right at this time do you come from London I come from Southampton which isn't far from London it's about 60 miles south of London my family is in the Kent area right now but I've like to find myself in London because you do a lot of homeless people get the idea that you would get more help here whereas what the government say is if you don't have a connection to this area even though it's a bigger city like we can't help you we could help you with food and everything but normal Necessities clothes and everything like that but when you're only getting that sort of help it's just a day-to-day routine of doing the same thing every day and if you're not getting the Help Housing wise you can slide on your mental health and everything whether it's depression whether it's anxiety even normal speaking to people it can be very very difficult and the more you go through it the more of your mental abilities you lose at times it's Vicious Circle it's a very Vicious Circle it's a very Vicious Circle you've got these people in government now spending loads of money on like airplanes just get from one place in England to another when are you talking about the Richardson that's it that's it I was reading that spending 2 500 quid an hour or something like that to use an airplane when that could feed the whole of London for about a week on breakfast yeah whereas me if I was prime minister I wouldn't take an airplane I'd just like catch a national expression like wherever he was off to UPS off and then that 2 500 an hour can go towards food for the homeless in these charity groups and day centers Mark you mentioned something like you grow up and there was a addiction problem in the family what about you are you messing with substances I do I mean I saw my mum and dad drinking very constantly when I was a child and it just sort of latched on from there and it's been like that since my young teenage years even while I was at school I think I think there's like a connection to that but some people seem some people end up like with parents that are drinking can get on with their lives and just move on some people are just set differently in the head some people can cope some people can't we all COPE in different sort of degrees at times yeah what substances are here on the streets there are quite a fair amount I mean I don't know whether or not it's like it up North but obvious alcohol that's one of the ones like I know people who are homeless up do a bit of cracking stuff like that bit of speed we all have a coping mechanisms there's spice there's new psychotic substances it's even all in the prison and stuff like that and get weed drugs in prisons it's pretty much the same thing with homelessness and just like prison Services some of the homelessness connected to the prison Services because of not getting housing some of them might have to go on to the Rob but some might happen robster food and stuff and they start getting themselves in trouble everything like that yeah

so you you say most of the homeless here on the streets are messing with substances so you would say I would say most of us because most of us don't need coping mechanisms but there are a majority that can live on the streets who are used to it who might not have actual addictions who can actually physically go for the help while their mental health is up here because when you're on these addictions your mental health is from here to possibly here you're still coping with your day-to-day life but you need everything else in place which is the problem with England you don't get your mental health you don't get your normal doctors we don't get your Alcohol Services all in one place it needs to all be sort of conjoined are you receiving any kind of benefits from the government I used to I used to but at this moment I don't particularly have a bed like I don't have this bank card but this Monday coming I've got an appointment with some mungoes which are a charity organization who I will be going to and they will be helping me to reconnect with my family to get me a mobile just help reconnect with family and hopefully try and sort of Bank out with HSBC there are Charities out there that can help with these things that are stopping from getting into the next step which is the accommodation whether it be your hostel whether it be your shared housing whether it be anything like that right good luck Mark I I like to keep positive it's the only way well isn't the last time you you had a gaff the last time I had a gap was when the that pandemic started all right you had one day because it was well it was Travelodge it was hotels all right I mean I was homeless before that in the Kent area but when the pandemic started the government got funding for basically good amount of funding if you get older homeless off the street into travel lodges because of covert so they didn't want us out on the street to catch covered but I didn't risk it the coffee helped homeless immensely it helped me mentally I was in Travelodge Hotel my own bed my own TV my own shower in the room mentally I was actually up here my alkalism my drinking I was probably drinking two or three well every two to three weeks instead of three or four times a week like you weren't drinking as much no no I was finding things to do during the day that go out for a little walk like five ten minute walk during the day when it was quiet at night have a little shower and you could do a bit of a routine you like that I I loved it as soon as I get my own housing again that would be brilliant I can sort of set a routine look for work and it's that first step that you need

as soon as you get that first step everything falls into place it's like a jigsaw as soon as you get that first step you can start looking for your work I couldn't figure out whether he mentally able to work or not I think I am at this moment I just hope everything in England gets better with the government because with the government we're getting just people in power that don't know what they're doing to be honest they're just chucking money at the local councils and everything like that to help us but they don't know how to do that the councils then just Chuck the money into the Outreach Services into the data centers and they just don't know what they're doing I think we need as a country to have people working in these data centers in these Outreach positions who have actually been through it through the situation itself like the street workers yeah do you see any Studio workers here you do get the street workers like coming around but there's this thing called weather provisionment which means they only tend to come out if it's severely cold or if it's severely warm I see so if it's not nice and warm or in mild temperatures you've got to do everything for yourself which some people can do but some people out there need a bit more of a helping hand and I don't think the homeless should have to wait until it's Sub-Zero conditions or absolutely belted hot like it was summer 41 of degrees were they around the last couple of days because it was so cold for me I haven't seen them but with me when I get to sleep at night I find the most best places that are nice and cozy where they might not necessarily look let's see but you get them cozy places where it's difficult to find so in some ways you have to be less cozy for them to find you you have to like sleep on a park bench or something like that here right under the streets that's it or say that around the coach stations or around the train station you've got to sleep in them sort of bases where it's a lot more windier and by the way what you eating right now it's a bit of like a curry rice I don't know what the peas is somebody gave you this I actually found it I knew it was from last night you found it it was literally it's a cold it must be cold it is but it's still nutrition though it doesn't jump my gosh I know it's from last night's food group all right and when they were handing it out then it was cold anyway so it's still going to be the same temperature I can't believe that Mark Mark if anybody like your family members are watching this are you do you have anything to say to anybody who recognize you they're out there yes yes I would I haven't spoken to my mum since the night before the World Cup final which was Argentina and the France she did say to me to get in contact with her so then she could tell me what was going on on that match but unfortunately I had a bit too much to drink and I lost my phone but I'd just like to say hi mum this is in all right man's that showering cross and I will hopefully see you soon man is coping because of the drinking that's my actual addiction and Mark if there is anybody like would like to give you some donations or Reach Out is there any email or Facebook you have Facebook and people can contact you I haven't at the moment at this moment no but that will be hopefully what I will be trying to sort out on Monday when I get when I've got this appointment with Saint mangoes because I know they're getting me a phone it might be just one that calls in text but they will give you a fun yeah so I can like talk to their family because not being able to talk to me mum like for the past month and a half or so it has been a bit meant to leave don't end side to side yes

all right Mark thanks a lot for the interview all the best my friends top on Monday we'll go well and you get a gaffe I hope so myself all the business space that's it until next time

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