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Question: Discuss about Homelessness in Malaysia Answer: Homelessness is a worldwide concern, as it affects populations across the globe, irrespective of their gender, community, caste, creed and ethnicity. There is no particular definition of homelessness as the term varies from country to country (Alhabshi and Manan 2012). The United Kingdom Homelessness charity crisis, home is not only related to shelter, but it also provides the individual with sense of security, belongingness, identity and wellbeing. Malaysia as well, suffering from the issues related to homelessness (Homeless Link 2017). There are number of organizations that provide help to these Street friends throughout the country. This discussion will feature one of those organizations, yellow house situated in Kuala Lumpur (KL) and will put up some of the conversations with the Street friends people residing in that shelter. Administrations of countries are unable to estimate the actual figure of Street friends as the number changes much frequently. In 2016, the number of Street-friends in Kuala Lumpur was more than 2000; however, no government verification of this figure has been done (Ghee and Omar 2015). In between, yellow house organization continues to serve the Street friends people around Kuala Lumpur and more than 500 people takes shelter in this home. There are varieties of Street friends in this shelter home, someone has been thrown out of the house because he is a drug addict, and on the other hand, a 78-year-old father has been kicked out of the house because of his old age. One year back, Zikri (24) used to live in south KL, with his family. However, his sexual orientation was his major sin, and according to him, He was thrown out of the house because of his homosexual orientation. Raihana (32) is a mother of a 3-month-old baby girl and she was thrown out of her In-laws house because she gav e birth to a baby girl, instead of a baby boy. She is now residing under the supervision of Mrs. Khadijah (45), chief supervisor of the Women wing for yellow house organization. Besides providing shelter, yellow house organization provide different kind of skill developing training to these Street friends so that their upcoming generation did not face such severe problem. There are a number of individual, who are working in KL, but their wages or salaries are not sufficient to rent a home (Yani et al. 2016). One of those is Ahmad (29) is from Pulau Ketam, a village in Malaysia. He came to KL to earn more for his family, but due to the high cost of living of this city, he was unable to save money for his family, hence, he took shelter in the yellow house shelters. Nimah (31) has been out casted of the society because she has opted prostitution to educate her daughter. The society accused her for spreading negative inspiration to the younger generation and this is how she came to KL and ended up in the yellow house shelter. Mrs. Khadijah is now bearing all the cost of Nimahs daughters education and Nimah is learning stitching and cooking to be financially stable in her life. Homelessness in not just a state of living, without any security and safety but also is stressful mental condition that affects the physical and mental health of affected people. The conversations with Street friends residing in this shelter home indicates to the orthodox mentality of the society. In spite of helping a person to overcome his addiction, throwing out him out of house is harmful for the person as well as the society. I this condition, Yellow house organization is doing a Nobel work, by providing these Street friends people with safety and security. References Alhabshi, S.M. and Manan, A.K.B.A., 2012. Homelessness in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: A case of agenda denial.International Journal of Social Science Tomorrow,1(2), pp.1-9. Ghee, W.Y. and Omar, R.N.B.R., 2015. HOMELESSNESS IN MALAYSIA: VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCE OR BY CHOICE?.Asian Journal for Poverty Studies,1(1). Homeless Link (2017).Homeless Link. [online] Homeless Link. Available at: https://www.homeless.org.uk/ [Accessed 18 Nov. 2017]. Yani, A., Mahfuzah, N., Zahari, N.Z., Samah, A., Haziqah, N.F., Azahar, M., Faidhi, M.A., Yasin, S.M., Saman, A., Shahril, M. and Noor, M., 2016. Factors associated with homelessness and its medical issues among urban Malaysians: a qualitative research/Nurul Mahfuzah Ahmad Yani[et al.].Journal of Clinical and Health Sciences,1(1), pp.46-58.