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Teach A Man To Fish

This Is My Story About Helping A Homeless Man Make Enough Money To Survive In Hanoi Vietnam

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Teach A Man To Fish

By: Peter LeGrove
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 Hi. My name is Peter LeGrove and while I was teaching English in Hanoi, Vietnam, I had an opportunity to try and help a homeless person try and better himself. I have had no experience at all with anything to do with homeless people. The closest I got, was when I was nearly down and out myself, with very little money coming in. I was trying to make enough money to live on, selling stuff in the street markets. At those times I used to eat the free lunch at the church. Here I was surrounded by every homeless derelict from miles around. But they were good people and they looked after each other, and the church helped them out, as best it could. Another church I went to, handed out a leaflet that explained what you could get from the government. As the government tried its hardest to make sure you didn't know these things. On the leaflet, was a list of all the free and very cheap places you could go to eat cheap, and I used to live amazingly Cheap In An UnCheap World. Anyway being homeless in the West is a lot different from being homeless in South East Asia. At least in the West you do get some government handouts, but they are not very much. In Asia you get nothing. My old friend in the West was on the pension, and he lived in a van in a covered parking garage. During working time the garage was full, but after work and on the weekends he had the place to himself. The pension in some countries is not very much, and this is how my friend could live on the pension. The pension for two people living together under the same roof is reasonable, but when one passes away the amount of money coming in is halved, and that is when the money problems start. As my friend found out, so he sold his house and now lives in a van. In the West if you own your own home then you have to pay property taxes, and these taxes are not cheap. Of all my monthly expenses, property taxes were the most expensive. The internet and phone was usually about $120 a month, electricity about the same depending on the weather, and property taxes came in at a whopping $200 a month. I didn't even spend that much on food. Also you had to pay tax on the car, but that was a very cheap tax coming in at somewhere between $10 and $15 dollars a month. My friend in the garage had to pay $100 a month rent for the parking space, plus the tax on the car, which could come in at closer to $25 dollars a month when everything was added in. With two people paying the bills you could survive, but as soon as the income was halved you could get into financial difficulties very easily, as my mother found out when dad died. Anyway in Asia there is no safety net, so after my friend got fired he was on his own. And this is my story about how I tried to help him stay alive. It is not easy living in a dog eat dog world, especially when you are trying to etch out an existence at the bottom end of the social ladder, where people are very protective of their turf, because it is where they made the money to live on. And the last thing they wanted was somebody else moving in. Even though my friend was a long way from taking over their territory, and it didn't take them long to realize he was not a threat.
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