The unexpected face of homelessness: Bee Orsini at TEDxMacquarieUniversity

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In Australia, Bee Orsini is the Liaison for The Salvation Army's Education and Outreach Project to raise awareness of homeless youth. She knows the reality of being homeless and was often in dangerous and self-destructive situations.
Her goal is to inspire other young people who have had similar circumstances to get the help they need to change their lives for the better -- and to inspire all Australians to take action towards ending youth homelessness in their own communities.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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@kellyleonard3330 10 лет назад

Beautifully spoken. I really like the idea of saying someone is experiencing homelessness rather than labelling them a homeless person.

@chloesgrass4143 4 года назад

Anyone watching this for school because their online work told them to?

@yogabbagabba9145 6 лет назад

I’m currently on the verge of being homeless and I’m pregnant so I’m very scared. It’s very depressing and I hope I can gather the strength to endure my situation with articulation and clarity.

@stixx.r6 4 года назад

Follow up comment? How is life now?

@WarrenJay 7 лет назад

i just don't understand how you look up at the sky and see a universe filled with infinite resources...and we're down here.

@Hansprivate 8 лет назад

I live in America (Portland, Oregon) and nothing you are saying surprises me. I volunteer with the the local homeless population and what gets me is a lot of the homeless people I deal with go an entire week or more without people even looking them in the eye or acknowledging them. A lot of the people I encounter don't fall into the stereotype of the "hobo". A growing number of these people have jobs but can't make ends meet financially.

@YoniNadi 4 года назад

Hans Carter . It’s been five years since this video was published; and three years since your comment was on the U-Tube channel. I have visited Portland a few times, 1993, and 1995; I’m sure that there was a homeless problem at the time of my visits; and I see on the U-Tube videos that there is an epidemic of homelessness in Portland as of 2019.

@somegirl7 10 лет назад

Beautifully spoken Bee! Such a big inspiration. Congratulations on such a moving talk.

@tasmaniarocks3039 10 лет назад

HI Bee I used to run between the mission outreach in Surrey hills (Sydney) to The salvos up near oxford street to get dinner and bed if i could. I was a litttle kid i had no family and the only people that helped me where not Australians, but people leaving war zones like the Turkish and Lebanese and Vietnamese and i never know of the past lives of these people that helped me at the time. I feel so humble. And love seeing people like yourself with ambitions and dream, become reality

@davidbrysonsince1979 10 лет назад

Bee, keep fighting the good fight. The Salvos are one charity that I have utmost respect for and am very passionate about the cause. Love seeing the little old men and women out collecting. I can never walk past the Salvos, even if I don't have much to give or I'm struggling financially.

@PricillaMac1 8 лет назад

Brilliantly presented. Thank you

@stillwater006 10 лет назад

Bee ... I was worried about your future path for a while, even though we barely knew each other. But you have turned into the strong woman you always should have, and I'm happy you have my dear

@JeffRossaz 9 лет назад

THANX WORKING WITH IT AND ON IT! in Durango, CO*"experiencing" it in my Volvo (Swedish Chalet)

@donnam4730 3 года назад

Yeah, I've been homeless a few times too and I never really could put my finger on it at that moment but now that I look back I was scared and confused and out in the rain a lot!

@patsoby 10 лет назад

very inspirational, I've been homeless twice.

@hrhtreeoflife4815 6 лет назад

Hope you are still out there doing well! Remember to turn and help those people in need today, when success and prosperity comes your way.

@BACCHUS777 10 лет назад

Great talk.

@luzfigueroa1550 7 лет назад

l never judge a person who is homeless because i don't know there story or reason for being there. l too was homeless and l wanted to die and attempted it also.

@tram105 5 лет назад

I As more and more real estate and higher prices for public housing increase, I don't know if affordable housing for family demands can accommodate with increased homelessness.

@arick.arzadon 5 лет назад

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@markyegge644 7 лет назад

In Southern California we have a lot of homeless people. But we also have a lot of what I call profressional homeless. Sometimes it's very hard to tell the difference.

@christopherscheiber1439 2 года назад

Are rents ten grand a month yet?

@JasonMcCombHomelessHappens 9 лет назад

There is a difference between the term "HOBO" and "Homeless" Not all homeless people are hobos!

@Danaomiree 8 лет назад

+Jason McComb there is also a very big difference between a hobo and a bum.

@tonymorgan9240 2 года назад

Its all about education dontj judge a book by its cover ??

@tonymorgan9240 2 года назад

Its not about you stick to the homeless subject ?

@billwatson8648 7 лет назад

Try watching "Final Cut -- Masky, Really?" to see homelessness and intolerance from another perspective.

@MikeRLloyd73 4 года назад

bill watson where?

@OzoneMcWego 2 года назад

Bottom line: Homelessness is a choice. Its a tough pill to swallow but its true. Also to note, If throwing money at homelessness was the solution we would have solved it a long time ago.

@johnlangly3346 10 лет назад

This is so wrong, she had a job but had nowhere to live for a while because she broke up with her boyfriend, so she calls herself homeless. Why couldn't she go flatting or go into a boarding house. It's not as if she didn't have a job or income coming in. Typical Gen Y whinger, suck it up princess - she hadn't even spent a night sleeping on the streets. Calling herself homeless is an insult to those people who are actually sleeping on the streets night after night with no end or future in sight. Let me tell you something about homelessness - my parents and I came over to Australia as immigrants in the 70's, some nights we had no food and we had to sleep on the streets, some nights in someone's garage, eventually we ended up renting a room in someone's house after being helped out by a good samaritan. Yes a whole family living in one room! For a while we were actually homeless (i.e. no money, no job, no shelter - out on the streets) NOT some Gen Y whinger who actually has a job but didn't want to go flatting or check into a boarding house or youth hostel. She makes a mockery of all those people who are actually homeless and who have to sleep on the streets, night after night with no end in sight and no future. It's a testimony to how out of touch TED is with the rest of the world if she can present a talk about homelessness. Hey TED why don't you get an actual homeless hobo on stage and let him/her talk and you'll get a real view of what being homeless & helpless really means. And Bee if you really want to understand about homelessness, go help out in a soup kitchen and make an attempt to talk to some of the people who come in. Perhaps then you'll realise how silly and insulting calling yourself homeless really is, but then perhaps not - first world problems.

@linglingblingbling1112 10 лет назад

The title suggests it all, dingbat - "the unexpected face of homelessness". She doesn't claim to represent the population of the homeless demographic either. She is one of the many faces of it. She's talking exactly about what you are suggesting which is a stereotype associated with homelessness, and she didn't fit this mould. Homelessness can come in many different forms, and YOU don't understand that being homeless doesn't mean they don't have an income. In fact some of them do. What she's doing doesn't make her a "Gen-Y whinger" - you sir are the one here whinging on RU-vid.

@johnlangly3346 10 лет назад

Li-Ling Kong You have no idea about homelessness, so please don't trivialise the problem by pretending you understand it. Part of her job is to raise awareness for homeless youth. I was a homeless youth decades ago, living on the streets on and off for a large part of my childhood. She doesn't represent me. For those of us who've actually been homeless, the feeling of desperation and helplessness is immense. To have some gen-y trivialise and misappropriate the word 'homelessness' is insulting. If you've ever been hungry, had to scavenge a rubbish bin for food then you'll understand where I'm coming from. And unlike you I'm not going to insult you by calling you names. I'm sure you're well meaning, just very, very young & naïve. If you want to understand homelessness go help out in a soup kitchen for a year - you might learn a thing or two about real 'homelessness' and about life. Again I'm going to restate what I've said in my first post, someone who's working and in between places to live, is not homeless no matter how much they may try to misappropriate and trivialize the term "homelessness". And the fact that she says her greatest fear whilst she was supposedly 'homeless' (when working for a law firm) was being found out by her co-workers that she didn't have a permanent place to live shows how far removed she is from homeless people. My greatest fears when I was homeless and living on the streets was physical violence, having other people 'bash me in' to take what little I had, or being hassled by the police (the police in Australia in the 70's were mainly white that didn't take too kindly to non-white homeless people). If worrying what other people thought about her was her main problem when she was working and 'homeless' then I would say she was very, very lucky. I wish all the other homeless people who are currently living on the streets had her worries.

@1206gabby 9 лет назад

+John Langly The homelessness back in the 70s was very different to the current issues faced by youth now…its because of narrow-minded people that think contrary to the statistics mean people who need the most help don't ask for it due to being stereotyped and judged. Clearly you still have unresolved issues, but this shouldn't be used in negative ways- why don't you use it to support others than bring them down?

@markyegge644 7 лет назад

John Langly.......When I was working in San Francisco in the year 2000 I was making $40.00 per hour and living in the cheapest motel I could find. But I was driving up my credit card to buy basic nessessities. Later I was able to find cheaper and better accomodations. A lot of people don't have this luxury. I guess a lot depends on where you live.