[Leica] A piece of great news...

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Nathan,
Great! The positive power of photography!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> You may remember that back in late August I posted these two pictures of a
> man who had been living in a broken down car on the sidewalk by the beach
> since May:
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#635831932_RD2BE
> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#635832032_ctrwP
>
> I cycle past this spot several times a week, and during the months since I
> took these pictures I have occasionally stopped by to chat with him, give
> him some money, lights for his bicycle etc. Last week we had some bad
> weather with cold nights (not freezing, but cold) and lots of rain, and I
> had been concerned about him. When I cycled by on Monday afternoon, he was
> not there but otherwise the place looked normal. Today I came by and saw
> that his things were gone and some garbage men were loading the remaining
> junk onto a truck to take it away. I stopped to talk to them and they told
> me that he now, finally, had got a place to live. After 6 months! I guess
> the latest round of publicity (national TV came to do a story on him in
> November, for a popular programme called Espa?a Directo) helped the local
> authorities get off their collective butt.
>
> I feel very happy with the outcome and about the fact that I was able to
> provide him some small measure of comfort during the ordeal.
>
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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