She found that Indian professional people do weekly public service duty. Doctors, optometrists and dentists open their offices to the poor one day every week. The poor pay what they can, be it chickens or vegetables. All leftover restaurant food goes to the poor, she said. Henry noted that rich and poor housing in the same block is common in India.
Children often sleep in the gutter in front of shacks.
Last, but not least, are the economic factors involved in world homelessness. For instance, some workers in different countries make less than one dollar a day. Also, the economic systems they work under are usually inflationary. Economic inflation means that things get more and more expensive, but people's earning power stays the same. In some countries a half gallon of milk or a dozen eggs might cost a whole week's pay.