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Monday, 2 June 2014

High Five Abdi part 2





I would like to tell you the next chapter of the story about the Angry Carpenter and High Five Abdi.
Please read the old story first. Anyway the news is as follows. I watched the TV show Nybyggarna in which homeless people are being given a chance to rebuild their life by building a room for themselves in a collective living.  Abdi was given this help and we now heard his story of why he was depressed. He is from Somalia and his family thought he would have a better life in Sweden so they sent him away with a relative to live in Sweden when he was only 8-9 years old. He remembers the trauma of running after his parents car when they left him. In Sweden he studied and got a job but when his brothers and his father died he got seriously depressed and lost his job and started to drink and take drugs. In the end he became homeless. He has not seen his mother and he cannot phone her as he feels that he has betrayed them as he has nothing to offer his mother and he of course do not want to confess that he is homeless. This could have turned to a sunshine story but he left the collective living and left his "golden ticket" to a better life. A friend of mine who gives clothes to homeless people saw him in the city very thin and under the influences of drugs. Unfortunately this story has no more high fives.














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