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municipal hostel does not suffice to attend the number of homeless people who come every day looking for help, even after tripled its seats at the beginning of last year. It looked a little work, ungrateful and "very long term: we have two or three people off the streets and entering houses in the last two years and that to me is a huge success," says Lina Martinez, director of People Homeless and Emergency Municipal Social Welfare area.
The 185 squares which the hostel now has -20 of them in the center-filled day with the same ease with which they filled the 54 beds it had before, and it still does not cover the entire population calls for any help. Serve hot meals, showers and social and educational activities there.
Faced with increasing demand, some homeless are left to live for the environment: some sleeping on bus stops nearby, which set up their blankets and belongings occupying the space, others spent the night sheltering in the perimeter of the High Schools, some resting on the lawn of the park of the pellets during the day-night closed-and increasingly proliferate the gorillas in the area.
Not all, yes, want to sleep in the hostel, but the environment has become a reference area for those living on the street. Most decide to stay away are people who have long been homeless and have achieved a high degree of impairment. What has made this service is to divide appointments to go to sleep, thus preventing the formation of queues at the shelter and avoiding the chance that there is fighting for a place.
The social emergency van Social CEPA makes rounds daily, morning and afternoon, areas frequented by these people to try to approach them, make sure they are safe and provide access to basic services, if accepted . Through this deal they try to access help.
"Sometimes we miss what it really means to be homeless, but people who not only has no house, but has been completely detached from social networks I had, both familiar and friendly, and little by little it has been isolating. After many years living on the streets deteriorated physically and psychologically and often do not want to sleep in the shelter, they do not accept any discipline and this service has requirements such as schedules or the prohibition of entry under the influence of alcohol. " Those who do not accept these minimum requirements may apply to the center of low demand of the Paseo Juan Carlos I, a much more precarious place where users can shower, sleep and have a semi-cold food without being required nothing but present no aggressive behavior . It has a dozen seats, two dormitories for men and women.
"In Sevilla have very good time and that means people can live on the street, "says Homeless responsible for City Hall. "And that will always homeless. That we can not avoid it for more money to invest. "
The 185 squares which the hostel now has -20 of them in the center-filled day with the same ease with which they filled the 54 beds it had before, and it still does not cover the entire population calls for any help. Serve hot meals, showers and social and educational activities there.
Faced with increasing demand, some homeless are left to live for the environment: some sleeping on bus stops nearby, which set up their blankets and belongings occupying the space, others spent the night sheltering in the perimeter of the High Schools, some resting on the lawn of the park of the pellets during the day-night closed-and increasingly proliferate the gorillas in the area.
Not all, yes, want to sleep in the hostel, but the environment has become a reference area for those living on the street. Most decide to stay away are people who have long been homeless and have achieved a high degree of impairment. What has made this service is to divide appointments to go to sleep, thus preventing the formation of queues at the shelter and avoiding the chance that there is fighting for a place.
The social emergency van Social CEPA makes rounds daily, morning and afternoon, areas frequented by these people to try to approach them, make sure they are safe and provide access to basic services, if accepted . Through this deal they try to access help.
"Sometimes we miss what it really means to be homeless, but people who not only has no house, but has been completely detached from social networks I had, both familiar and friendly, and little by little it has been isolating. After many years living on the streets deteriorated physically and psychologically and often do not want to sleep in the shelter, they do not accept any discipline and this service has requirements such as schedules or the prohibition of entry under the influence of alcohol. " Those who do not accept these minimum requirements may apply to the center of low demand of the Paseo Juan Carlos I, a much more precarious place where users can shower, sleep and have a semi-cold food without being required nothing but present no aggressive behavior . It has a dozen seats, two dormitories for men and women.
"In Sevilla have very good time and that means people can live on the street, "says Homeless responsible for City Hall. "And that will always homeless. That we can not avoid it for more money to invest. "
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