Streets sleepers: Increasing numbers in big cities

By: Zaki Haza'a Edited into
English by: Mahmoud Assamiee SANA'A, Aug. 15 (Saba) - People sleeping on the
streets is a
phenomenon rises in the big cities in Yemen where poverty has become a great
challenge to almost most Yemeni people.
These scenes of sleepers which spread more in Sana'a and Aden, the two capitals of
Yemen give negative image on Yemen and its people.
Reasons Reasons that pushed people to return to the streets to sleep on varied.
Some people can not afford to rent places and some do not basically own houses,
especially
those who come from other governorates.
Among other reasons of people do not return to inns is that some people fear to
sleep in inns because spreading diseases among those who sleep with like skin or
internal
diseases as one mattress used several times by different persons without cleaning.
Some also do not prefer these inns due to close spaces between the sleepers.
Difficult conditions Asking these people who sleep in the streets, they admit that
this act is uncivilized and they do not welcome it but their difficult living
conditions
forced them to return to these some places in the streets to sleep on.
In the capital Sana'a, definitely in Al-Qa'a area near the wall of Sana'a
University, there are many people sleep in the corners of streets.
Statistics Statistics concerning this phenomenon differed from Aden governorate's
districts as the least number of sleepers exists in Buraiqa with 12 persons. The
highest
number is found in al-Mansourah district with 81 persons. The number differed also
in the rest of other districts they ranged between 21,22,41,73.
Solutions Building fences and collective housings to those who sleep on the streets
were the most important thing made by some civil society organizations, government
bodies
and also citizens. These fences and collective housing will help them avoid the
above mentioned problems.
They will be separated from each other according to regulations of age, behavior,
conduct, and morals and psychological and diseases case. Every one will be put in a
place
that suits him.
Awareness campaigns have been also carried out to these people and citizen to show
the dangers of this phenomenon. Work opportunities to the sleepers on the streets
will
be provided to them to be able to provide homes to them and their families.
Increasing numbers Those who made these solutions do not believe that they will
eradicate the numbers of streets sleepers as their numbers are continuously
increasing.
Governmental and concerned non-governmental bodies must study and analyze this
phenomenon to and implement the solutions resulted in their studies to contribute
limit it.