Hong Kong. Remaining behind the scenes

If you type “Hong Kong” into a search engine, you will see a huge number of photos of this amazing city. But the internet won't show you the whole truth. Hong Kong is not only Victoria Peak, Big Buddha and thousands of designer clothes boutiques. It is also dirt, homeless and ordinary people who have neither time nor money for the Hong Kong that you see on the Internet.

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1. The first record of homelessness in Hong Kong appeared in 1977, at that time there were about 1,000 people in the city who had to sleep on the street.

2. Hong Kong's GDP is about 40 million per capita, and yet, about half of the homeless say that the inability to pay rent is the main reason for their current condition.

3. In residential areas, on almost every street you can meet a beggar.

4. The main homeless areas are Mongkok, Tsim Sha Tsui and Sham Shui Po.

5. More than half of them need medical care.

6. In Hong Kong, there is no specific law that would prohibit sleeping on the street, but one of the main tasks of city services is to clear the streets of such people.

Various methods are used.

7. The city authorities take out the things of the homeless from their places, wake them up with the help of loudspeakers, there were cases when people were poured with water in the middle of the night so that they would wake up and leave.

Some places even spray itchy powder to prevent people from sleeping there.

8. Another important issue is poverty.

9. Every fifth resident of Hong Kong lives below the poverty line.

10. There is a lot of talk in the news about the fact that people began to live better and richer. At the same time, the number of poor people is growing every year.

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12. Hong Kong has the world's largest gap between rich and poor.

13. 40 percent of Hong Kong residents live in houses subsidized by the authorities.

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15. One in three seniors must struggle to work just to meet their basic food needs.

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17. For most of us, things like: food, water and a warm bed are commonplace. But not for them.

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19. Nearly 1.5 million people in Hong Kong live in poverty.

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21. These people have to get up at dawn and go to bed after midnight to do not the most pleasant work.

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23. We sometimes think that being poor means being hungry, naked and homeless. Poverty means to be unwanted, unloved and neglected, that is the greatest poverty.