Imagine this if you can

We took a call about 6 months ago, the call came from a well known agency is all I can say at this point.
They had a man with them who desperately needed help.
This mans wife had died and for whatever reason on her dying he lost his accomodation, he had no friends or family to turn to and ended up living in one of our parks, imagine how awful that must be and how scary particulalry for someone recently bereaved, no one to talk to, no money, nothing to eat.

We were asked if we could provide some food for this man as he hadnt eaten anything for 7 days, 7 days without food, sleeping rough in the park, the weather was very wet at that time and it was also cold though thankfully this last winter wasnt as harsh as the previous 2.

We could of course but it presented another dilema, what can someone with no access to a kitchen actually eat that will suffice, we gave him tuna with ring pull lids, biscuits, orange juice, crisps, chocolate bars, we also put in some tins of beans with ring pull lids as awful as that sounds to have to eat cold beans we decided that cold beans was better than nothing, we also popped some tea bags and sachets of coffee and hot chocolate in the hope that someone might just be kind enough to make this man a warm drink.

We never met the man personally but we were told that he sobbed on receiving the food.

It might sound bad that we dont meet everyone personally but we simply couldnt, we are so busy sorting the next family/individuals that it would be inpossible but aside of that the emotional cost to us is massive, you cannot help but worry about what happened to this man and all of the other people we have helped but never met, if we were to meet them all then we would probably bring them all home so we need to keep a detachment in order to protect ourselves although on occasions this has proved impossible.