Meet Dinu from Romania - homeless due to alcohol - Tales from the streets - London, England

I met Dinu in central London. He has been on the streets for the last 16 years because of alcohol. . . .

Vlog in text: All right folks we are here with Dino he's been on the Streets of London for how long roughly 16 years 6 years 16 16 years oh right wow so you're very very experienced to the life on on the streets well I pretend to be what made you homeless got right got mental heal he's got mental heal so why are we at here so you had an accident yeah a bike accident you were on a bike you were probably drunk right from from from cocaine from aoin from crack tablets what what is it that you sleep I can sleep everywhere in the rain in the snow doesn't matter for me is that where you usually see on the rain and on the streets especially yesterday coup of rain I sleeping there opposite tell me your story how did you end up homeless CU you said you you come from Romania right yeah and you came here and what happened I tried to make a better life than my country like many others and uh it was okay for a while but I couldn't save money at all I couldn't I couldn't so after a couple of months I end on the street I talk about 2007 and up on the street I tried to that was that in the UK or sorry it was that in Romania or in the UK yeah you came to to the UK and you couldn't get any job I had job before I had even this year I tried to have around more jobs more jobs but because I am addicted to alcohol it's not easy for me it's not easy I see what jobs did you do before well when I came here okay in my country I never work work in building but I was working here for a while you work as a in a building industry yeah constructions yeah but you you got but never in my country like a labor very simple things but I couldn't save money at all I couldn't rent is very expensive I couldn't afford it I can't afford it this year already lost four jobs just apply back on the street I was working for a couple of months sleep in the park go to work in the morning but it's not easy it's not easy all right you you were sleeping in the park and going to work and yeah every single morning what jobs what jobs in cleaning cleaning jobs yeah all right know well tell us more about like your childhood and about you said you grew up near the Romanian Ukrainian border yeah very close close with the Border yes on the border there life was good but there was no jobs and you came to the UK it's all jobs but when I finish my job in Romania my job was different it's not like here was different I've been in Army for a very long time sorry I've been in Army for a very long time in Army in the Army right Romania Romanian Army Romanian and United States well and what United States as well United States Army yeah okay how how come only 11 years 11 years in the Army and uh how did you manage to to fight did you to be for the US Army as well I'm not talking about normal Army I've been Afghanistan for 5 years you've been to Afghanistan for 5 years yes yes with the Romanian Army in the first place yes after that join United States Army okay did that impact you in somehow the Afghanistan war is that like a yeah yeah when when I when I finished 2006 I start drinking and my brother was here so okay don't kill yourself you surviv in Afghanistan don't kill yourself there because I start drinking so much too much and okay come to London a big opportunity okay come and come in 2007 after one year and it finished my army in 2006 it was okay a couple of months and then start drink [Music] again how much do you drink din know well actually I drink beer you drink beer yeah is that that that's your alcohol no Spirits no wine a proper Romanian you should be drinking wines wine and pink I drink oh you polish beard TI I like it yeah all right all right DIN and tell me you know in how is it to be homeless on the Streets of London well honestly you don't need to buy food there's plenty food yeah food is free everywhere you go even shower right you can get show do you use the S Martin's connections oh yes for many many years now for many many years yeah it's here around the corner they very good are in they yeah they they help a lot of homeless so you recommend to use S Martin's connection yeah if you're homeless to go to S Martin they help you out from connection they send you somewhere else for San mangos for example they send you some somewhere else San mangos San mangos is another place it's no place it's all over all over London all over London are all over see I see right Dino and uh so you say this food what about accommodation are you being offered like hostels yeah yeah why don't you go and sleep in hostels I can but I try it but even if I I'm a room I sleep down on the floor in the hostels I can't sleep in a bed I can't can't sleep on bed anyway no come is that all the belongings that you have here or you've got more belongings somewhere I got more I hand it somewhere okay you got I put in a bag I put in a bag PL right right right yeah safe the place yeah did you get experience any any harm from other homeless people oh yes I got this most of them are is not they're not like me most of them try to steal from somebody steal from shops is they're not from like me I'm Different my experience of life is different than than their that what they do just to try to make some money for drugs not me I got two children they don't know what I'm doing here they don't you don't know you on the streets no are they in Romania your children yes and they don't know you you on the streets no they don't know but the only problem you have is alcohol yeah you can't work because the alcohol is like you're drinking from the morning till night basically and you keep losing jobs because of that all right you know and listen there somebody watching this maybe wants to help you contact you is there any email address or phone number you have can you can say that now and people will hopefully maybe fellow Romanian people will will see you on the streets of London and feel sorry for you and now dino is going to give us his details so if you feel like contacting DIN and giving him even a a word of advice or what so my email address is Dino d n 9027 at gmail.com Dino d i n u u 9 27@gmail.com all right okay thank you very much but that hope somebody will contact you by email better by email yeah definitely and uh if there is any advice to people who are messing with alcohol would you give people an advice you about I had many many advice in my life I never follow them you think someone else somewhere else is going to follow the advice I don't think so no I'm in contact with cgl I will see how it's going to work for 2 years now I still work it for detox alcohol detox yeah I've been in AA long time ago but I I don't like to say okay my name is the alcoholic I don't like to say that I've been there so I stopped drinking for eight months and then start again in the Christmas Day for eight months you manag not to drink and be with the AA not at all yeah because AA yeah but you don't like to go back there and say that I try it again but no you don't feel like going back it's alcohol a big problem you think is like yeah it's the biggest problem what I got for you is the biggest problem yeah of it and you you're smoking as well yeah a lot a lot all right Dino and um where in Romania oh you said from the borders with ukra and you're usually hanging around this area if somebody wants to to find you in the in the in the city you're near the Leicester Square in London l Square yeah it's near in I know the area better than anyone else all right my friend well thanks for the interview and all the best thank you cheers I'm homeless I'm I'm I'm but I'm do ch Check this out! 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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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