Downtown Eastside Introduction

Servants Vancouver is an intentional Christian community living and working in the Downtown Eastside. This video is an introduction to that neighbourhood.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Downtown
• Eastside
• Introduction

[mckenney1980]

Vancouver will not do any thing to help these people because there way of things is that if they dye the city will look nicer i am and the only way these people can get off the drugs is if they want to help them self's this i know i use to live there and i got out i am now 6 years clean

[persianhoney83]

@mckenney1980 congratulations on your recovery!! i live in vancouver and i remain hopeful more people will help themself out of this lifestyle.

[jay19xxx]

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[nicolesteward1]

@kimo2330 I send my love to you.. I have a sister as well who has slipped through the system and desperately needs help. She shows improvements, but then falls back again in the depths of dispair. I often thought of how I would feel if one of those woman were my sister and my heart goes out to you and your family. I hope my sister will recover and always live in fear of what the end will be. No one deserves that. We can all show love and compassion even if we don't make sense of it

[schlooonginator]

@MrMsteezy As this man has said mdma is known on the street as ecstasy NOT speed. Speed is an amphetamine such as crystal meth or ice, jib etc. Many people really have no idea what addiction is like and don't understand why people cannot quit and it angers me when uneducated people criticize these people. For one, you dom't know them or what they went through as children or are going through today. Most have mental issues and got into drugs to feel better/self medicate.

[googiespage]

@mlc2005 I know that Vancouver has homeless because it is the best place in Canada for weather because it is around freezing in the winter and a comfortable temperature in the summer. They come from other parts of the country. I think that other canadian cities and vancouver also, get homeless from the USA because the streets here are usually safer. I heard that some get free train rides to another city because they don't want to deal with the homeless.

[mlc2005]

One thing that always surprised me about Canada is the very high homeless population in their large cities. I'm from the US, but have visited Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and others many times. The number/presence of pan handlers and homeless people is off the charts compared to US cities. It's not an insult at all, I'm just shocked that there would be such a high rate in such a wealthy (and COLD) country. Any ideas?

[mlc2005]

Thanks for posting! I was surprised that the narrator said Downtown Eastside was "a horrible secret," because it's just as well-known (at least in Canada and the US) as other crime-ridden areas like the south bronx or south central, etc.

I actually really admire the way Vancouver is taking a progressive approach with these issues (needle exchanges, safe injection facilities, and community centered policing that is very lax by most standards).

[Sterling20073]

simple solution, forcet rehab, they get kitted out police to grab ANYONE that is clearly on drugs around that area, throw em in a van, and take them to a rehab facility, build temporary rehab centres if needed, cage them up seperate then see all those grotty lookin shops and areas where their gettin high, fix them all up n make it mint, and fuck the human rights, their not living, their just existance, miserable existace, so u keep them locked away, fed and watered ofcourse

[MrMsteezy]

@tokesalot42069 Haha you sir officially dont know shit about drugs. mdma is ecstasy which can sometimes be laced with speed, also know as crystal meth you idiot. Your dumb enough to think mdma is speed and to think speed is different from crystal you have to be retarded.

[tokesalot42069]

@MrMsteezy lol mdma is speed and crystal meth is different so they arent the same thing, and i have done mdma, but im not dumb enough to do str8 crystal

[MrMsteezy]

@tokesalot42069 You haven't done shit, you wouldn't say meth and than speed right after if you knew anything about drugs. There the same thing retard.