I am human too

  Have you ever wondered about the experiences of street dwellers?  Or why are there so many of them?  My name is Karimah Samuel, and I am a third-year student at The University Of The West Indies. Recently I was tasked with an assignment to conduct my first mini ethnography based on any topic of my choice. Due to my background of community-based initiatives and my urge to fathom the underlying factors of what causes a person to do what they do as well as their experiences; I based my research on homelessness in Trinidad and Tobago.  My ethnographic research entitled “stepping in the shoe of a street dweller” aimed to investigate the many causal factors of homelessness as well as the experiences street dwellers encounter on a day-to-day basis. During my interview process, consequently, to hearing my participants' responses to how helpful the government has been, I mentally stumbled upon many questions that were in relation to the government’s interventions that can p...