Galician Alejandra Silva and Richard Gere have attended the laSexta program, The goalaccompanied by the journalist Ana Pastor. The ambassadors of Home yes They have talked about the different social causes that are concerned, among which are Help emigration, support Open Arms’s bailouts or end withouthogarism. For the latter, the couple is clear and pose a challenge: “We want to end withouthogarism in Spain. We have given ourselves 6 years”says the coruña businesswoman.
Home yes It is a foundation of which Alejandra Silva and Richard Gere are ambassadors. The objective of this association is get no person living on the street. To do this, they create different projects aimed at eradicating withouthogarism, giving support and response to the needs of people who do not have a home. The platform prepares a documentary about this, for which they need dissemination and signatures in order to ‘What nobody wants to see’ It comes to light.
“We want to end Sinhogarismo in Spain”
The couple has come to The goal To talk about several causes that are concerned, among them, withouthogarism. Ana Pastor has asked Alejandra Silva about this issue, in order to know what both want to get with the platform Home yes.
“We have talked about a lot of issues, about Open Arms, that I know that he has told in the interview that you were also very insistent that this cause will continue for so many years that you had it, but there are many others, for example the issue of withouthogarism that I know is another of those who worry you. This is a situation that if you compare Spain and the United States also see differences, but you said ‘you have to do things in Spain.
Alejandra Silva shows her most sensitive and vindictive face in the face of problems of this nature. His answer was very clear and forceful: “Yes, we also said, since we will come to Spain, One of the causes we want to do, because we truly consider that it is plausible, is to end withouthogarism in Spain. They are just 30,000 … well, I don’t know the numbers exactly, but come on, about that number. “Ana Pastor did not hesitate to ask if “Is this short?”.
Galician Alejandra Silva is clear “yes, totally. We can do it. We have given ourselves 6 years and we will get it. It is a challenge. We do not have such a big problem and we can get, we can do it “.
The short documentary ‘What nobody wants to see’
“A documentary. Thousands of stories. An opportunity to change everything”this presents Home yes In your social networks the documentary What nobody wants to see. However, for this short documentary to come to light, from its website they affirm that “We need 37,117 signatures, as many as homeless there are in Spain, to change this reality”.
“How was your life before this descent?” Richard Gere asks one of the people who contribute their testimony. “How do you feel now?”Alejandra Silva says to a woman who also contributes her vision about how she is homeless.
“At 4 – 5 days you hope.. Thus begins the advance of this documentary crude that reflects the reality of thousands of people in this country.
Housing in Spain is in a very complicated problem, and an example of this is all these people who, for one reason or on the other, live and sleep on the street day after day, rain, snow or be cold. “I know that this is uncomfortable to see, that nobody wants to see it, but the solution is not to look the other way”says one of the testimonies of the short documentary.
Home yes Fight to offer different solutions to people who live a situation of withouthogarism, giving them housing alternatives and support when reconstructing their lives. In their programs, issues of special relevance such as the Right to housing, health and right to use these people.
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