The Melbourne airport chaplain who inspired a new film starring Hugo Weaving
Luis Enrique AscuiScrimshaw has an unassuming air and kindly face. “We try wherever we can to connect them to support agencies, but it really is a broken system.”The airport has 23,000 employees who the chaplaincy team works with. Getty ImagesOne homeless man in his 80s was sleeping regularly at the airport.
- ▪Luis Enrique AscuiScrimshaw has an unassuming air and kindly face.
- ▪“We try wherever we can to connect them to support agencies, but it really is a broken system.”The airport has 23,000 employees who the chaplaincy team works with.
- ▪Getty ImagesOne homeless man in his 80s was sleeping regularly at the airport.
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