For more than 15 years, 65-year-old Jimmy Frans lived on the streets of Camps Bay. Surviving on collected tins and the kindness of strangers.
Winter nights without shelter were his hardest test, he says, until a chance meeting last year set him on a new path.
Frans met operations director for the reintegration organisation Ignisive, Ryan Rudy, who encouraged him to accept support and move into The Haven Night Shelter in Green Point.