Prince William: down and out in London
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Britain’s prince William, 27, Number Two in line to the UK throne, now knows first-hand what it’s like to be hungry, cold and homeless during the season of goodwill.
Last night he crashed near Blackfriars bridge in central London.
“At a dinner Prince William attended in March 2009 to support Centrepoint, the Prince, our Patron, threw down the gauntlet for us to work towards ending youth homelessness by our 50th anniversary,” says Centrepoint CEO Seyi Obakin, going on:
“I invited him to share, for one night, the experience a young person sleeping rough on the streets of London might have. It did not occur to me that he would pick up that gauntlet. But he did!”
After almost run over by a road sweeper, “I cannot, after one night, even begin to imagine what it must be like to sleep rough on London’s streets night after night,” William is quoted as saying.
“Poverty, mental illness, drug and alcohol dependancy and family breakdown cause people to become and then stay homeless.”
Meanwhile, over at Buck House …
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Centrepoint – Prince William spent a night sleeping rough to experience homelessness, December 23, 2009
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December 23rd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
How about Premier Campbell doing the same, given BC has the highest child poverty rate in the country and the poorest neighbourhood in Canada?
Oh right, his idea of “get out of sight because it’s cold and wet, or go to jail” and let’s not forget IOC’s rule 49 and 52, and Vancouver’s ByLaw change for “graffiti”.
At least Prince William is giving it a try and maybe nothing comes of it, but it’s more than others have done to help the solve the problem, you know, actually look at the root cause instead of applying bandaids or using a bulldozer.
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
When I compare the trillion-dollar cost of things like the wars or the bailouts to the 3-billion-dollar cost of feeding every hungry mouth in the world, it really makes me wonder where we’re headed.
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
How about George W. Harper doing the same?
Or maybe visit some areas in USA or Mexico right BEFORE a hurricane strikes to rethink what he did in Copenhagen?