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Staying in the street has become a tough task this week for the homeless.
Siberian cold snap has forced the Department of Social Services to strengthen its assistance, in winter, given to the homeless.
The volunteers of Caritas, Red Cross and Social Services daily serving 25 homeless and seek them blankets, warm clothes and food for the night.
The program helps passers of the Department of Social Services also works Hospitality Santa Teresa.
In fact, volunteers offered to the homeless the opportunity to spend the night there but most refused to leave the street.
According to the mayor of Social Care, Antonio Calderon, this is due to the fear that someone would remove the cartons or mattress where they spend the night.
In the van of volunteers each night accompanies a Red Cross ambulance if he had to move some indigent hospital.
Volunteers start at 21 am and run through the following areas: Santa Lucia, Paseo Alfonso XIII, Cartagonova, Alameda and several ATMs in the city. The tour is subject to change, police said a neighbor or a Social Services report places where are the homeless.
Similarly, Calderón recalled that Santa Teresa Hospitality has sufficient capacity to accommodate the duration of the cold wave to the indigent.
There are 40 vacancies.
On the other hand, the mayor asks citizens to alert the local police or or call the Department of Social Services (968128841) when they locate the homeless volunteers to come at night to assist you.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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