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It seemed that the cold would not come this year, but in the end hizo.La Siberian cold snap has forced oenegés volunteers and workers of Social Affairs to be used to fund any homeless sleeping rough. Red Cross got a person of 16 who visited last night to spend the morning in the temporary shelter the organization has mounted on its premises from the street Gisbert.
The man who collected the volunteers agreed to accompany them to the lodge, and had symptoms of hypothermia.
While the rest of the homeless refused to leave the road and only a few accepted the thermos of hot coffee and warm clothes offered them volunteers.
The Red Cross yesterday placed in one of the halls of his home 12 beds with blankets to the homeless shelter at night.
The Red Cross shelter is a temporary space, as indicated this morning, Councilman Social Care, Antonio Calderon. It is a temporary device that will last as long as the cold snap.
It is a space that comes free at Ayuntamient or the mayor insisted.
The campaign, coordinated by the Department of Social Services also involved Santa Teresa Hospital, Caritas, the local police and Red Cross. Although for a few days the Red Cross also hosting homeless at night, Calderon has made ​​clear that the priority of Hospitality Hall will always be the Santa Teresa. Forever sent there to the homeless, but with the cold weather never hurts to offer more opportunities for these people to have a decent life.
With those words has denied the councilman of Social Affairs is no duplication of services. There is no duplication because what has been put there is not a hostel but a temporary site, in addition, excluded people they should care for and pamper, all that are services to address are never over.
Social Care has a service to cater for pedestrians, this program reinforces the winter seasons and cold waves, volunteers walk the streets every night in the city to serve the homeless.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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