Gooder Essay: Homeless On Campus By Eleanor J. Bader

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Homeless on Campus Homelessness is one of the social issues that have been a problem in America and other countries for many years. As years go on, it has gotten worse. Sometimes, people get the wrong definition of what homeless really means. The true definition of being homeless is not the lack of having a house and living on the streets. Homelessness is defined as what is known as a person or family who lacks housing or is forced to live on the streets or in a shelter. When defining homeless from the actual federal definition, homeless is defined as a person, child, youth and even family who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residency and is required to live in shelters or anywhere that will help accommodated them so they will…show more content…
Bader. Bader writes about her student, Aesha who is a twenty-year-old attending Kingsborough college in Brooklyn, New York. Aesha used to live with her one year old son, her son's father, her sister, her mother and her mother's boyfriend in a three bedroom apartment. One day, she and her son had to leave home because her son's father became physically abusive. They spent thirty days in a temporary shelter and after that, the landed at the city's emergency assistance unit (EAU). Aesha described what it was like living on the streets. “We slept on benches, and it was very crowded. I was so scared I sat on my bag and held onto the stroller day and night, from Friday to Monday.” (Bader 635). Most times, she slept on benches or in a shelter. Aesha is one of forty four students since she was thirteen that have received a LeTendre Grant from the LetTendre Education Fund for Homeless Children which is a scholarship program administered by the National Association for the Education of homeless Children and Youth. Today, Aesha lives in a shelter but she spends almost eight hours a day on the trains. “I have to leave the shelter at five a.m. for the Bronx where my girlfriend watched my son for me. I get to her house around seven. Then I have to travel to school in Brooklyn. The last stop on the train followed by a bus ride another two hour way.” (Bader 635) She eventually confided her professors to explain her periodic

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