The importance of people’s awareness to donate and volunteer for the homeless in Kuala Lumpur / Raisul Faris Putra Abdul Rahman (original) (raw)

Homelessness is a public state experienced by individuals who do not have a regular home or stable personal shelter that is warm, safe and secure. It also means not having a home. An individual does not have to be living on the streets to be homeless, even if one has a roof over their head, they can still be homeless. This may be because their home is unsuitable or they do not have any rights to stay where they live. As indicated by Gwo Burne (Masalah Gelandangan, April 2007), it is said that Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat has given the total of homeless in big city is as many as 7833 since 2007 to December 2011. From the research, the factors of them becoming a homeless is 46.6% jobless, 17.7 % who has low income, 10.5% old, poor and living alone, 4.8% addiction of drugs, 4.4% to those who are neglected and abandoned, 2.2% for those who have mental illness, 2.1% critical illness, 1.9% who does not have a permanent place to stay, 1.2% ex convict, 1.1% disabl...