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Safiyya Karim, a Fashion Designer, Talks About How She Started Her Label Amaya and Her Philosophy Behind Designing Sustainable Products, Writes Mudassir Raja Community Community The Embassy Pakistani of Indonesia rock band P6organises P16 Junoon all one-day workshop ‘Never set to perform at underestimate Alzheimer’s’ the Qatar National to create awareness Convention Centre about the disease. tomorrow. Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Jumada II 4, 1441 AH Doha today 120 - 200 COVER To the fore STORY Homeless but not friendless: How a Facebook group supports people on the streets. P4-5 STARTUP QATAR HOLLYWOOD Designing The 6 must-see way forward. Grammy moments. Page 8-9 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, January 29, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.59am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.20am Zuhr (noon) 1.48am Asr (afternoon) 2.55pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.17pm Isha (night) 6.47pm USEFUL NUMBERS Frozen 2 fi nds herself strangely unsettled. 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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, January 29, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY At home on Facebook A Facebook group for homeless people — more than 1,200 members and counting — might be unexpected but no more strange. Smartphones have become common even among the destitute, who rely on phones and Internet access to seek work, housing and other help, writes Emily Alpert Reyes vangeline Elmendorf engaged, engineers, Pilates homelessness by going back to an Greene can go an entire instructors, cryptocurrency abusive ex said she now had days day — sometimes more investors, people trying out the to get out of her house, after the ex — without speaking to keto diet or tracking the aurora decided to move to Florida. anyone in Santa Fe, New borealis. “I’m terrifi ed at the thought of You can go in there EMexico. When she wakes up in the A Facebook group for homeless going to a shelter if I could even cab of her truck and heads over to people — more than 1,200 fi nd one with available space, no (Facebook) and get the Walmart to wash up, she sees members and counting — might family left alive, no friends to turn reinforcement without families shopping together and be unexpected but no more to due to years of being controlled feels alienated from their world of strange. Smartphones have and isolated,” she wrote. anyone trying to everyday errands and warm beds. become common even among “I guess my question is, how do “I feel like a shadow in the the destitute, who rely on phones you continue to fi ght when you just shrink you or fix you. world,” Greene said. and Internet access to seek work, feel like giving up?” she asked. But when she turns to the glow housing and other help. Many have In Phoenix, Jamie Adams said They listen. A lot of of her smartphone, Greene has also turned to the Internet to ease the private group saved her from people don’t listen friends at her fi ngertips. Some of the isolation and disdain they face succumbing to depression. them she has known for years, but on the streets. “You can go in there and get only behind the glassy screen of In one post, an 18-year-old reinforcement without anyone her phone. They share stories of says she has been homeless since trying to shrink you or fi x you,” — Jamie Adams, trying to sleep on cold sidewalks, the death of her father. Within said Adams, who is now living swabbing down their arms and legs minutes, someone replies “so in an extended stay hotel. “They stay hotel occupant with baby wipes, fi nding cheap sorry for your loss.” In another listen. A lot of people don’t listen.” hacks to stay warm or cool. post, someone thanks people for The online group was launched There are Facebook groups for checking in after her daughter three years ago by Mark Horvath, people who adore betta fi sh, for underwent surgery. who founded the nonprofi t ‘ mushroom hunters, the newly And a woman who had escaped Invisible People to change public ’ Wednesday, January 29, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY perceptions of homeless people through storytelling, education and advocacy. Horvath, who was once homeless in Hollywood, wanted to help build an online community to provide peer support around the clock. The ground rules are simple, Horvath said: Treat people with grace and kindness. Everybody needs to feel safe. No personal attacks. No racism. And no fundraising. Although the group is meant for homeless and formerly homeless people, it also includes nurses, doctors and social workers who are there to help. Horvath said in one instance, the group swiftly linked someone in need with a nearby doctor. In another, a Houston woman reached out to the group, asking someone to call her while she was walking back to her tent at night. Wendi Taylor said it was the fi rst time she had walked alone down that poorly lit street after she had survived a sexual assault.
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