Summary of the 5th #TodosDurmiendoEnLaCalle (Puerta Del Sol) "The Three Wise Men Without a Roof"

Everything started in front of the car of our director of photography, Jose Sanabria , in Barcelona at 7 o'clock on January 05. Although at first we were Marcos Hernández Garrido , Paco Mendoza , Jose Daniel Marín , Jose Sanabria and I ( Andrew Funk ), we were only 4 and we did not know why until the afternoon of the day after. Daniel sent me a whatsapp at 17h24 on January 6 responding to my message the previous day "Good morning! Are you okay?" With "No!" I was stuck there, hitting me.

On Monday, I'm going to help me. They give me epileptic seizures. Fuck that pity. "This type of message could surprise many people but, unfortunately, it does not surprise me after all the stories that we lived daily with homeless people The important thing is that Daniel is well and will be able to participate in the next event. We needed 629 km to get to Madrid and we were waiting for 5 hours and 53 minutes inside a Nissan, among the 4 of us, we had slept a total of 15 hours the previous night but we all wanted to offer the children in the Puerta del Sol a unique experience: the opportunity to talk with the first Three Wise Men in your life Marcos and Paco fell asleep, snoring, within the first half hour and I talked to Jose and worked with my mobile between social networks and emails .

We continued to Zaragoza and we had a telephone interview with Maria Rubio Garcia de Nació Digital for an article " Les persones sense sostre es depullen per la seva causa en una calenda solidari " that would come out at 2:14 pm on the same day. I wanted to contact a TeleMadrid journalist, María Bayon , whom I met 5 months earlier at our last action in Madrid with a group of 50 students studying for her Executive MBA at the Mays Business School (Texas A & M), so I wrote to him and he responded quickly. Thanks to her, I had the opportunity to speak with the appropriate person of the TeleMadrid weekend news and we left the same night (Add link to the news as soon as Jose Sanabria sent it to me). We also had many opportunities to laugh and get to know each other better.

Road trip! #LikeAKing #HomelessEntrepreneur

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We arrived punctually at 17h to Madrid but the traffic was cut off thanks to Calbagata the same afternoon / night so it took 30 more minutes just so Jose could leave us 800 meters from the square where we would spend the next 24 hours between the cold and human warmth We were waiting for Albert Torre , Papi and other members of the Chupano association with strong hugs and we began to place the banners we had created after eating in front of the equestrian statue of Carlos III.

Being the fifth event, Marcos and I are always ready for a day full of surprises and we try to make the most of it.

Although we joke a lot during the 24 hours to maintain a good mood, we take our work very seriously and always create banners with specific messages to make it clear why we are there and how we would like to interact with the public.

It is not easy to form a good team of people as sensitive as homeless people but it is possible and our events foster friendship and teamwork that creates a bond that could not be created in any other way.

We had the opportunity to be recorded by TeleMadrid while interacting with the children and this came out in the weekend news (10: 03-10: 23) thanks to the help of the journalist, Maria Bayon, which I mentioned previously.

Reyes Magos Sin Techo, one of our missions was to raise awareness for children and teach them that "giving is the best way to receive." There was a child who was not very clear but in the end, his family showed him the importance of this message. It was one of the most beautiful moments of the night.

I have to say that in this event it was the first time I made the decision to be a Wizard King and the look of the children when they approached little by little to ask us for their gifts is something that melted me. Pedro, one of the children, handed me the following letter sponsored by El Corte Inglés and Vanessa with the first and last part written by her.

Dos cartas a los #ReyesMagosSinTecho #Pedro #Vanessa #EmprendedoresSinTecho

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During the first night, we talked to everyone who crossed their eyes with ours and we received the best gift: their smiles. Every time we perform an action on the street, we have the pleasure of talking with strangers and making them think and smile: It's a wonder when we connect.

The first touch of the police happened when they told us that we could not touch the fences with our belongings or they would remove them so we quickly got up and put it back together again and better still with the new changes. Marcos came with an altar and we began to invite the public to express their opinions about poverty and we recorded it to share it on Periscope, Twitter and Facebook Live. It was a very enriching experience for everyone. 

As the hours passed and the temperature dropped, our stomachs began to scream impatiently for dinner. Fortunately, we met Sandra, a person who lived on the street and who was tortured for being different. She treated us like the Kings we always wanted to be.

Although we did not know how we were going to sleep, the activity of the street always decreases but without stopping completely and it is at that moment when we have to sleep even if it is only a few hours. We got comfortable around 3:30 and received the second police call at 4:30.

We went to the Puerta del Sol metro to rethink how we were going to situate ourselves again. We stopped for 15 minutes, we saw a fight and asked the security where we could sleep without being disturbed. The answer was "there where there are scaffolds." I asked him if it was a safe place and he started laughing. I understood him, I thanked him and told the team that we were going to sleep there in front of the Bankia door. I awoke with great pain in my left hand to sleep on top of it, a frozen mucus in the right nostril of my nose and the vapor visible in front of my eyes.

A positive point of sleeping on the street is that you wake up, walk a few meters and you are already inside a Pans & Co. drinking a coffee with milk. The most fun of breakfast was paying € 3.91 for 3 coffees. I did not understand anything. I was very sleepy but I could not imagine a number ending in 1 ... until I was told it was for a discount for being a magician king hahaha. I said thank you and continued in an intense and fraternal conversation with Marcos and Paco. After taking 2 coffees each, I received a call from the photographer, Dani Parra, who makes some tremendous pictures giving soul and visibility to the homeless, to stay at the door of the sun. We recognized each other and hugged each other as if we had known each other for a long time and took a photo to help us create more visibility and awareness quickly before leaving for another place. Brief but sweet. Just after saying goodbye, Marcos convinced a child to come up and express his opinion about poverty. Just seeing his smile in this photo justifies all the effort after this event for the children.

Although we never rest during these 24 hours, some escape a few minutes to have fun as you will see in the next photo. 

On January 6, another big obstacle was presented: giving 4.5 kilos of candy. Maybe you would think that you would give them in an hour but we need 6 hours to do this great work. This time gave us the opportunity to interact with children and parents and ask the children what they would like to give to a homeless person instead of what they would like to receive. A girl told me, if I had a lot, a lot, a lot, but a lot of money ... I would give ... 50 €. Another boy asked me for a house and he told me he would give a room to a homeless person. The answers were special and came from their hearts. With the exception of a father who screamed at his son for picking up a candy with the desire to hit him and a few parents who did not allow their children to be children this day to interact with us; the vast majority were very kind and friendly.

The time to end the event was approaching and Marcos started interacting with Pocoyo to create more awareness. I laughed so hard that my ribs hurt. A little humor does not make you sleepy but it makes you forget the fact of freezing the night before and not sleeping at all.

Jose Sanabria, our director of photography, asked us to take a picture together as a photo of dismissal in front of the giant tree of the square and we did it because nobody had the energy to discuss at that time or to make the joke.

Only one more candy was needed to give the last child. In the end, we gave much more than flyers, candies and smiles during these 24 hours, we gave the opportunity to open a new healthy debate for children and families: what can you give a homeless person to help you? The best answers came from the children, not from the parents ...

We would like to remind you that this action of #TodosDurmiendoEnLaCalle will accelerate the process of providing shelter and creating work for the homeless. After picking up everything at 5:00 p.m., the space where we spent 24 hours without home was exactly as before, with no one sleeping on the street, and we hope that all citizens, companies and the government put their batteries in order for us to take a photo from the place where they sleep in the streets of Barcelona without them in 2022. We hope you will come to the next event that will start at the Mobile World Congress on February 26 at 7pm!

Series 'Little Warriors:' Troglokhan

Unveiled because he can not catch the dream.

The little angels opened.

In itself, he is what remains of the rest of the luggage.

In a sofa. Since November, the  mc  (master of ceremonies, rapper) Eduardo  Xl  Soro (Tegucigalpa, 1989) lives on a sofa. That's why he keeps awake and no longer dreams of sweets.

He gives me the address of his sofa, where the letters arrive: a first floor of the Passeig de Maragall.

Decayed, do not give up  (Despite the distance).  Eduardo, the Troglokhan gorgonite, has also spent some nights on the street. Collaborate with #HomelessEntrepreneur.

"The sofa is brown, threadbare, fabric, three-seater", describes his sofa Eduardo Soro, haggard, dark, with a green cap (hope) Dickies brand (his logo is the horseshoe of good luck). "Four colleagues, two Catalans and two Latinos, also live in that house, and since they do not step on the dining room at all, they lent me the sofa, and there I am, there as I sleep there. They told me: 'Stay there'. "

He does not pay anything. Try to be invisible (mutable): "I try to disappear, to see myself as little as possible. The less I bother, the longer I'll stay. "

Before it had  squatted  (with a ka) a block of tourist apartments in the avenue of Paral·lel, 101 ("there is a need for housing in Barcelona"). The floors for guiris became La Profana, with its Facebook page to "resist": "On June 2, 2015, a group of young people will decide to empower-us with the apartment block La Profana, situat a l'avinguda del Paral·lel, 101 Bis ".

I had previously rented a room in Barcelona.

Now, the sofa, uncomfortable, without stuffed cushions: "The sofa is not so small, but the back ... It always goes cold. There's no Privacity. People go from here to there, let alone bring me anyone ... I have the last shift to bathe and to wash my clothes. "

He does not pay anything. It has no wardrobe. "My suitcase is a bag. I put my hand and the first thing I take out is what I wear. But I'm still grateful, "he feels.

The "rap performer" Xl Soro writes the lyrics about background songs  (beats). Be sincere ("be real"): "I speak of love and lack of love, of my disagreement with the human being. If it is evolving or devolving. What else do I talk about? He asks himself. Of the world conspiracies like the New Order, which I believe exists. From the hip hop culture  ,  which can create good human beings: good children, good teenagers, good men who die well. From a world without borders or flags. "

For him, Barcelona is a "restless lover". He arrived in Barcelona in 2012, crazy with love. He got married. On the ring finger of the left hand, the engagement ring was tattooed. Poetiza, which is the only way to delve into the human soul without breaking inside. First it says: "Love arose." First he says: "I fell in love with a Catalan girl". Then he says: "What always happens: we were fine until we were not well. Like all start, it had an end. " And in the end, abstracted, he says: "I stayed here and I'm still here." And again, the ending also says: "Our monsters came out, it was an unreal relationship".

Like a song by the Chilean guitarist Manuel García  (As you say), he  counts the waves in the air that nobody sees, with the lost look of the birds that crash against the crystals.

And between the beginning of the end and the end of the end, he burns his fingers: "I entered into unpleasant things that I do not want to talk about, I left everything I was building".

One of those things that he built, and still maintains, are the lyrics of rap. He puts on the phone what he just recorded, and apologizes ("it's not mixed or anything, but it works"). The theme, four and a half minutes, is titled "Persevere." In fits and starts you hear loose words and phrases, because you continually stop: "... that your strength fails"; "Singing of the hyenas"; "Rage"…

Rapper Eduardo  Xl  Soro, alias Troglokhan, continues composing in the house of his sofa, not on the sofa in his house. It does not stretch because the feet collide with the arms. Shoot. Note: "We are the forgers of this world." Sometimes, they call him for bowling. He would like to live on music. It does not charge the "bar concerts [/] workshops" to raise awareness with  hip hop  about the problem of violence ". "This is how I contribute", he assumes. He does charge in cases in which the future gives him certainty and invite him to events and pay him something, "fair". Then, save. And it goes to a Western Union office ("global money"). That money is sent to his mother, in Honduras. He is aware that the little here, there is a lot.

"I also know that I am part of that immense invisible mass of the street. If they spend looking at the iphone, you do not see them, but they exist. But I am a lucky one. I have a sofa. "

Summary of the 4th #TodosDurmiendoEnLaCalle (Plaça Universitat)

It all started in front of Plaça Universitat in Barcelona at 7:30 p.m. on December 9th. Instead of having a conference with 4 speakers, we formed a circle of more than 30 citizens who shared their ideas and actions on how we can offer more housing and work solutions to the homeless. To make sure that the participants understood how the event worked, we created a very large and clear banner in case someone had any doubts.

Some of the topics we talked about were:

  1. Porta22  as a potential collaborator to create work
  2. Café El Techo, a Michael Goeckon project  that will offer work and autonomy from your cafeteria
  3. The importance of languages hanks to a collaborator, Patrícia , who offers classes in Catalan and Spanish to homeless entrepreneurs.
  4. The obstacle of overcoming addictions as accessible as alcohol, thanks to a collaborator, Daniel , who had lived on the street.
  5. The importance of accompanying psychologists to help homeless people get ahead thanks to Silvia López Rodríguez .

Thanks to Blanca Pijuan , you will see a video of the final part of the debate. After the first part, we took a warm vegetable soup with pumpkin, zucchini, onion, black pepper and sumo vegetal that Anita Macedo brought us  , an expert in health and physical activity, for the 8 people who were going to sleep in the street with us . It was great but so much soup meant we had to find a place to go to the bathroom. We were very lucky because the workers of Luna de Instanbul(Ronda Sant Antonio, 102) they let us use it. We only had to "flash" once during the dead hours of the night. It is not very comfortable to pay attention to the blue sirens of the police that could possibly interfere with you for using the only space available for homeless people at 4 o'clock in the morning, the street. Three of the people sleeping with us tried to use the H10universitat basinbecause they thought it would be a place that would offer them the opportunity to use it but the employee did not even open the door to answer them and slid the card of their company under the glass. This was a shocking experience for them because they had never thought about how difficult it is to pee if you do not have a home with a sink. After the soup, we talked with the wanderers who passed by the square in front of our asphalt bed. Would you stop if a homeless person tried to talk to you or ignore you?

We tried to sleep at night but it was impossible for some until 4 o'clock and others did not sleep at all. We had a free entrance to the street theater and the play was called "Monólogos Sin Hogar." It was the event in which we talked to more homeless people than ever. Miguel, a Chilean who sleeps at a cashier in La Caixa near Entença Street, gave me his email and explained his problems as a worker without a contract and how difficult it is to charge the entire amount for renovating the houses. He said "If you owe me € 200 but you only have € 70 to pay me, I have to shut up and accept it because otherwise I will not be able to work with it in the future and I would lose more than € 130." While talking to one of the participants, they brought us hot milk with chocolate and music in the background. For my surprise, There was a religious group trying to convert some participants in the middle of the square. We respect all those who want to help and we understand that everyone does it with the best intention. As your flyer says, "we all have the opportunity to decide."

Also a woman from Brazil stopped and got off her bike to talk to us a little bit drunk and above all very happy while her friend took a picture of the group of people sleeping in the street with us.

The last person who greeted us before falling asleep was Juan Ma, a man with 50 years of age who asked us where he could buy more beer while holding a red can of damm star. He told us about the 'payos' that throw the squatters because he told us that people should not be on the street when there are so many empty places; He also told us regretfully about his 16 years in prison, his son in prison and his 2-year-old granddaughter whom he was a citizen of. We listened attentively for 45 minutes and learned a lot about how he survived with few resources and before leaving, he offered us a package of ham that obviously we could not refuse. He vanished in the cold night and those who could,

Most of us are afraid of the unknown and sleeping on the street can scare many people because we stop controlling our surroundings and there is no key to close a door to stop a thief and / or something worse. How do they see us when we sleep on the street?

We woke up with the sun and Andrzej accompanied us at 9 o'clock to help us create more awareness. He would have stayed with us in the street but he spent 1 week in the Hospital del Mar due to pneumonia that he took sleeping in the Paseo de Picasso. Being a carrier of HIV and coping with the cold of winter is a deadly combination for a homeless person. Thanks to Center d'Acolliment Residencial Zona Franca, Andrzej, he slept well and started the day with us with a huge smile.

Without knowing it, we had woken up in the place where many entities were going to celebrate the international day of human rights . I had the pleasure of accompanying  Toni Clapésa few steps and explain what we do before giving him a flyer and wish him a good Saturday. I hope you like what we are doing from the association. Waking up on a Saturday morning for many means showering, having breakfast and resting but for us it means 12 hours of raising awareness and raising funds among all the chaos and harmony that the streets and their citizens provide. Although the cardboard weighs 0.689 grams per centimeter, try to take it up 12 hours and you will see that you would not need to go to the gym later. He carried a banner explaining that we had slept there the night before; Vincent sold his English classes and Andrzej sold his massages.

Throughout the day, among many, I met Aziz Faye,  the spokesman of the union of manteros of Barcelona ; an  iaioflauta who paid the first massage, € 5 for 10 minutes of Andrzej as Entrepreneur Without a Roof; Kelly Lynn Lunde , a photojournalist for  Al Jazeera English;  Roberto Enríquez , writer at La Marea and Revista Mongolia; and a person who had consumed heroin for 18 years who tried to trick me by saying that he knew a woman who wanted to donate but needed € 20 to give him change ... Anyway, 24 hours gives for many conversations, some opportunities and some lies. The common sense street is what defines how you take advantage, more or less, these situations. About 5:45 pm, 8tvcame to interview us at the end of the event. It came out in the news of the weekend  (06: 07-06: 45) and as you can see, our faces showed the tiredness of participating the entire 24 hours on the street.

One of the best results of the event is the opportunity to grow the team of Entrepreneurs Without a Roof. In the next photo, Marcos gave Vincent a new jacket that he found.

A very important milestone in the 4th event of #TodosDurmiendoEnLaCalle is that they fulfilled the 24 hours without stopping the first two citizens with roof, Nuria GF and  Javier Garcia Calvache . Nuria answered the question about #TodosDurmiendoEnLaCalle that "the truth is that it is a unique experience that everyone should live to be aware of with this cause."

We would like to remind you that this action of #TodosDurmiendoEnLaCalle will accelerate the process of providing shelter and creating work for the homeless. After collecting everything at 7:30 p.m., the space where we spent 24 hours without a home remained exactly as before, with no one sleeping on the street, and we hope that all citizens, businesses and the government put their batteries in order for us to take a photo from the place where they sleep in the streets of Barcelona without them in 2022.

We hope you will come to the next event that will be held at the Puerta del Sol Plaza in Madrid on January 5 at 7:30 p.m.