Meanwhile In Greece: Homeless People Are People Who Used to Have Jobs and Homes

Reuters has a nice (nice?) collection of portraits of people living on the street in Greece, and the captions are really well done and respectful, presenting these men as working people who lost their jobs and then their homes. A selection:

“Dimitrios, 51, was a dancer in a famous Greek folk dancing troupe until he lost his job three years ago and became homeless.”

“Michael worked as a hotel clerk for over fifteen years but when the hotel closed he was unable to find work and in late 2011 became homeless. Two months later he was diagnosed with lymph node and thyroid cancer.”

“Stephanos became homeless in late 2012 when the clothes shop, where he had worked for over a decade, closed down and he had no income to pay for his flat.”

“40-year-old Yiorgos, who became homeless in 2010 after his grocery shop went out of business, sleeps outdoors in central Athens.”

“51-year-old Romanian truck driver Adrian, who lost his job in 2010 when the lorry company he was working for closed down, sits with his head in his hands in central Athens.”

“Alexandros owned a plant shop in Athens until 2010, when it was forced to close, he became homeless soon after.”

“Tareq, a Syrian refugee, who lived in Greece during the 1990s, returned to Syria, but fled back to Greece in 2012, to escape the violence there.”

Photo by REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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