Sharing bed just one case poverty’ found by charity
the hostel staff did a good job at getting her confidence back. But then she was moved into a property that was totally empty and literally all she had was the clothes on her back and a bag of clothes.
“So we turned up with a full furniture pack including a few extra bits and pieces to pretty the house up with ornaments and things like that and she was in tears by the end just because she couldn’t believe that she could actually start life again and it was kind of sad in a way but also very heartwarming because we knew we had given her a start.”
He added: “Sometimes we work with agencies who have to take the furniture out of people’s houses because it is in such a poor state and it needs replacing.
“We had seven kids topping and tailing in one bed, so we took bunk beds and single beds so they could all sleep separately and the parents didn’t have to sleep on the floor.”
Marianne said: “There was also one little girl who was about four and Julian was putting the legs on the bed he had delivered and she said ‘what are you doing?’.
“He explained and then she ran downstairs and said to her mum, ‘I don’t have to sleep on the floor any more’ because she had only ever known sleeping on the floor on a mattress.”
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