Yoga
Living on the streets, getting arrested for loitering, facing drug addiction and alcoholism, finding your place in gang life, sex work, stigmatisation, violence…they are all very stressful. Coming in to WAYout in the day time provides a chance for you to learn something, develop your creativity, talk to someone, be heard and have a family again. But at night it is back to the street.
Yoga and mindfulness help a lot. Sulaiman Bangura is a WAYout graduate. He spent years attending WAYout writing poetry and playing music. He started to learn yoga and was given the opportunity to train and lead groups and that is what he now does but he hasn’t forgotten WAYout and comes in every week to run sessions. He is starting a mindfulness course in July.