How do they end up on the streets?
Ed and his new friend Dina in her “beautiful boudoir” as she calls her shelter
Despite the difficulties of living on the streets, by the end of the experiment Ed began to enjoy his freedom in this new life that had no schedules or limitations. Still, he underlined that even those who had accepted their homeless life didn’t really want to stay vagabonds forever.
Some of them had run away from their drug-addicted parents, or escaped violence in their families. In Manchester, Ed met Dina who was the mother of 6. She claimed that she used to be a model, who did campaigns for Debenhams and M&S. Her life went in the wrong direction when she was 13. Her parents got divorced and she stayed with her drug-addicted mother. When Dina was 15, she fell in love with a guy who became the father of her children. Currently, her children live their father while she has to live in a temporary shelter made of old tents and trolleys. Despite the fact that Dina is a drug-addict, she misses her children very much.