towards higher ground | homeless youth (3/8)

Jamal Parham, 21, getting ready at 6a. All "clients" have to leave the shelter by 7.45a and find somewhere else to go. Jamal has spent 7 months at sylvia's place a homeless youth shelter, after he was kicked out of his cousins' apartment in brooklyn. He tried to commit suicide twice in past months by swallowing bottles of sleeping pills, "But I feel better now, more spiritual and grounded."
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Copyright elbert chu 2009
Copyright elbert chu 2009
