What does it feel like to move from the streets to a three-star hotel? From 1843mag
hen the door shut behind her, Ariel knew she ought to feel relieved. Her double room in a south London Holiday Inn offered a haven from the coronavirus outbreak roiling the capital, as well as previously unthinkable luxuries: her own bathroom, a, a door that locked, a proper bed. Yet, as she took in the empty wardrobe and the bland walls decorated with a single, abstract print, her stomach tightened. The winter shelter she’d come from had been basic in its provision but full of camaraderie.
The experience triggered a long episode of suicidal depression. Ariel found it hard to concentrate at work; eventually, the hospital let her go. When she disputed the decision it led to problems with her immigration status, which exacerbated her despair. Her landlord evicted her for falling behind on the rent, and she ended up being admitted to a psychiatric ward. After she was released in January, aged 56, she had nowhere to go.
When Ariel became homeless a few months before these measures, a charity worker suggested that she get a place in the winter night-shelter run by her local council. This meant a camp bed and hot meal in a different church or community centre each night of the week. Though Ariel was apprehensive about what it might be like, the other people there turned out to be funny, generous, vulnerable and kind. Within weeks, she couldn’t imagine life without them.
Ariel kept herself busy doing embroidery. She downloaded new patterns – a fox, a blue flower, lettering saying “Let’s Stay At Home” – and St Mungo’s staff supplied her with thread. “Cross stitch clears my head, I just forget where I am,” she said. “I don’t want to start having flashbacks, saying ‘Oh my God, I used to have a two-bedroom flat, now I am here.’ I take that out of my mind.”avid was sleeping on the stone steps outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square at the end of March.
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