Had I been genuinely destitute and really homeless I would have been lost in every sense, because I live in a country which now punishes the weak for their weakness.
One orphanage in Phnom Penh has reportedly been buying babies for $100 from poor villagers, to put them up for foreign adoption.Some hopeful child-welfare workers believe the Cambodian government really can help destitute children, and that the visa blacklist will scare some paedophiles away.
This, they say, has worked in the Netherlands.But an effective deterrent would mean being really beastly leaving asylum-seekers destitute, keeping them locked up in camps, as in Australia, or denying them access to public services.
Moreover, Chagas disease does not really benefit from the involvement of high profile celebrity champions who can help to give a face to the poor and destitute who suffer every day.
Not all of them are destitute.
But he is hardly destitute.
"They just left us destitute, straight up".
"They're not poor, they're destitute.
