It is possible to get out of the street, but you need a helping hand
She was born on 1st December 1967 in Rakovník as Ivana Krásová. When she was six years old, the family moved from Křivoklát to Prague. The family environment was very unhealthy, the mother drank and her father beat her; there was probably also sexual abuse. From the age of thirteen she was running away from home and after some time she was placed in the educational institution in Kostomlaty pod Milesovkou. After returning to Prague she started to live practically out on the street. She slept at the central station, hiding from the police in the underground channels. She was repeatedly imprisoned for theft, hooliganism or parasitism, at the age of nineteen it happened for the first time. She continued this way of life after the fall of communism. Several years ago, she overcame her addiction to alcohol, joined the Pragulic social project, got married and found permanent work and housing.