Homeless awareness night!

We got together on a windy October evening to 'camp'. The patrol that attended had six cardboard boxes between themselves, sleeping bags, the clothes they wore and not a lot else.

Fortunately some kind scout leader was running a soup kitchen that evening and supplied them with the breadshops waste bread and leftover veg soup with a small amount of cooked chicken sprinked in.

After soup we sat round a fire

outside and discussed issues affecting the homeless, the different types of homeless out there (not every homeless person sits outside and begs for money. Some sleep round friends houses untill they can pick themselves up or the social services finds housing).

It's still hard to believe in this day and age we still have a high homeless population and with the coming recession that the number is likely only to go up.

The night was extremely cold, windy and wet. In the morning after everyone was up we cleared up the camp, using the new scout altar fires to burn the rubbish.

Another sucessful camp!