One day after a desperate plea for help, 34-year-old Jahma Gibbons is today singing a different tune.And while he is not out of the woods yet, he is bound for a new job and a place to live possibly before the end of the year.The Royal Gazette yesterday reported how Mr Gibbons, who started Stand Up Bermuda, a group aimed at tackling the gang problem on the Island, had found himself living in a tent, looking for work and unable to afford Christmas presents for his daughters.Mr Gibbons was inundated with calls from a host of people offering various gestures of support. But by far the best call of all was the one he received from the BGA Group of Companies, a local distributor, offering him a job.President and CEO, John Tomlinson, in a statement released to The Royal Gazette said: “BGA is a socially responsible company and employer impressed with Mr Gibbons’ anti-gang message.” The statement added: “Mr Gibbons has shown the moral courage to shy away from what was ostensibly a life of easy returns to one that is more conventional and socially appropriate.”Now living in a tent, Mr Gibbons has been offered a job in the Warehouse Department at BGA as a picker (to pick orders). He has an appointment next Wednesday at BGA, and he has accepted the job.His new employer said “the shocking irony” of Mr Gibbons’ living conditions was obvious.“By giving him a role within the company,” Mr Tomlinson said, “we have chosen to enable him in his personal journey to educate and inform the vulnerable.”On that note the company head added: “As Bermuda moves deeper into an environment of economic hardship, many other people living in Bermuda will be faced with the same life choices that Jahma faced earlier in his life.”That sentiment was echoed by Mr Gibbons as well, who said: “If you go to the Salvation Army dinners you will see a whole heap of new faces that include a growing number of young children whose parents have nothing to feed them.”He believes we will see the fallout from growing poverty in Bermuda in the not too distant future, the spillout has already begun in his view. The bottom line he said is that, “it’s getting worse”. His phone has been ringing off the hook with all sorts of support in the form of gifts for his two daughters.“One woman has even offered me an apartment,” he said, “even though at the time of that call I still did not have a job.” He plans to follow that up right after the Christmas holiday.“I feel great, this is definitely a major turnaround from just yesterday,” he said. “I’m very excited and several people have commended me for speaking up and letting people know just how bad poverty is in Bermuda.”