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Temperature records last days V central lane Russia has become a real test for the homeless. And if in Greece, for example, due to “unprecedented frosts” (that is, snowfall) to save the homeless, the metro was opened around the clock on these cold days, then in Russia no special measures of assistance have yet been offered, although only for new year holidays in Moscow, 190 people were injured, and two died from hypothermia.
But the problem isn't just staying warm. Every day of a homeless person is a struggle for survival. Find a place where you can stay warm, spend the night, get food and some clothes, get medical care, and ideally also wash - all this seems like an insurmountable task for a person without a penny of money in his pocket. But in reality, there are enough places in Moscow where all this can be done completely free of charge, but not all homeless people know about it. Brief instructions on survival - in The Insider material
“I’ve been on the street since childhood,” says homeless Dmitry Nikiforov, a volunteer of the network of organizations “If there is no home...”, “in 1989, my family and I came to Moscow; I myself am from Baku. We came because a war started in Azerbaijan. Here I went to school, and then my father was killed, my mother started drinking. And there were three of us brothers in the family. They kicked me out of the apartment. Now I understand that my father simply came to an empty apartment, paid the cops, and that’s how we started living. Of course, we didn’t have any registration. We were kicked out of the apartment. There is nowhere to live: basements, train stations. And my brothers are small, I need to eat something. He made a living as best he could: somewhere you steal something, somewhere you earn something. That's how we lived. Mom died. Then I worked, even found and rented housing. Then he sat. I came out - no documents, now I’m working again and helping the homeless. There are ideas to create jobs for the homeless - a sewing workshop and a carpentry workshop, because mostly the homeless are those who came from places not so remote. Relatives, for example, while they were imprisoned, their apartments were sold, they have nowhere to return, and it is now very difficult for a homeless person to get a job in Moscow.”
According to the Lyublino Center for Statistics, there are now about 16 thousand homeless people in Moscow. Approximately 80% of people without a fixed place of residence came to the capital from the regions, mainly from those places where there is almost no work or from the so-called “depressed” areas. For them, the process of socialization turns out to be quite difficult, since from Moscow such homeless people are sent to where they were registered last place residence.
Where to eat:
There are a lot of such places in Moscow. One of the sites where a homeless person can get food is located at Three Stations Square. It is organized by a group of volunteers from the “If there is no home...” network. “We feed the homeless there on Thursdays. There is also a Salvation Army day center and a Salvation Hangar tent there. The volunteers there are homeless people, and they, together with social workers, prepare food, go to the Square of Three Stations and distribute it. It helps people come out on the other side. Many later become social workers thanks to such projects,” says activist Nadezhda Klyueva. Dmitry Nikiforov also often takes part in this project and enthusiastically talks about how he and his volunteers make sandwiches and prepare tea for the homeless. During this entire process, there is a constant dialogue between the participants of the organization “If there is no home...” and those they help, which, according to Dmitry, is the most important thing in this project.
Where to wash and get medical care:
Destation No. 4 always smells of urine and caked mud. Even when there are no homeless people crowding around here to shower, change clothes, or get medical help. “It’s a homeless place,” says someone behind me in the crowd, leaving the tunnel near Kurskaya.
And during office hours the smell is even stronger. At the very exit from the metro, the silhouettes are sorting something through their black plastic bags, another figure is approaching, slowly chewing a piece of cracker. Soon there is a line. Burnt, bearded, on crutches, haggard, in oversized sweatshirts, ridiculous caps, but all with big bags - plastic bags in both hands. Mostly men. They talk among themselves, someone takes out a mobile phone and begins to press the buttons with effort. Apparently he dials the number from memory.
Here, during cold weather, you can sometimes get something warm from clothes. They also provide free medical care here, albeit basic, but there are also places where the homeless can even qualify for free dentistry.
Where to stay overnight:
Homeless people can spend the night in state social centers, where not everyone wants to go, since the living conditions there are more similar to the conditions of serving a sentence, and they are mainly located on the outskirts of the city.
True, if a homeless person has little money, he can pay for a bed and stay in a so-called hostel; no one will force him to work there.
There are also centers where they provide social assistance, which includes sending home, issuing a certificate of loss of documents, assistance in renewing a passport, assistance in finding a job. social shelters for the homeless, as well as assistance in finding employment.
Most often, people without a fixed place of residence do not have the opportunity to call and somehow contact loved ones when they need help. For this purpose, in the north of Moscow there are several so-called public telephones. They can be used for free for calls to landline and mobile numbers in the Moscow region. There is even Wi-Fi in the cabins (surprisingly, homeless people with smartphones are also sometimes found).
Of course, all the infrastructure described above is in best case scenario will allow the homeless to live a little longer, but does not provide the opportunity for full socialization. By “saving” on the homeless, the state actually saves nothing, since they create an additional burden on police officers, doctors and social services. In the majority developed countries To solve this problem, there are special social programs that make it easier for homeless people to obtain housing. For example, in Salt Lake City, a program has been launched since 2015, within the framework of which a homeless person is provided with housing ready for living (with a refrigerator, microwave, etc.), calculating that this turns out to be cheaper for the budget than the additional burden on government agencies (ambulance , police, prisons) arising from homelessness.
Today we will talk about what kind assistance to homeless people (homeless people) turns out to be in Moscow and the cities of the Moscow region, let’s introduce the organizations and volunteer teams that do this.
Let's start with statistics. According to estimates by the Moscow Department of Labor and Social Protection in the Russian capital in 2015, there were about 11 thousand homeless people. Officially. Let's add those who were not counted, and we get the number of a small provincial town. A lot of. But they say that the number of homeless people is decreasing. Let's trust the statistics from the Department.
How free assistance is organized for homeless people in Moscow:
City program "Social Patrol".
The Social Patrol program, which was launched several years ago, found a response in the hearts of many people who are not indifferent to those in need. Social security employees use 30 cars and 5 buses to deliver food, warm clothes, and provide medical assistance to areas where homeless people are concentrated. 2 centers for social assistance and adaptation of homeless people have already been opened. A good start.
For those who need help from social protection, we leave a link to the website page of the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of Moscow, where you can find information on the procedure for recognizing homeless citizens as needing social services.
Help service for homeless people “Mercy”.
For more than ten years, the Orthodox aid service “Mercy” has been working with homeless people. This team has 3 main directions in which they move:
- preventative work at city stations.
1. "Hangar of Rescue" of the help service "Mercy"
This is a low-threshold homeless assistance center. This is a frame tent, it also has a mobile shower, as well as a social worker station. Room temperature The hangar is maintained using heat guns.
The main goal of the hangar is to facilitate the return of homeless people to society. A social worker in a tent provides assistance to homeless people in restoring documents, establishing connections with relatives, finding temporary shelter and work, and sending them home. On the territory of the hangar for the homeless, a free pay phone is available 24 hours a day for calls within Russia: with its help, homeless people can contact relatives or search for work.
Anyone who finds themselves in the hangar can get into the hangar. crisis situation without a roof over your head, regardless of the presence of documents and place of registration.
The Rescue Hangar operates during the day. Overnight buses " Social Patrol» transported daily from the Angara to the Moscow Center social adaptation those wards who want to spend the night there.
The priority task of the Rescue Hangar is to help a person return to society. At Angara, homeless people are helped to restore documents, establish connections with relatives and pay for their way home (more than 60% of Moscow’s homeless are visitors from other regions).
Every day, up to 80 people who find themselves homeless turn to the Rescue Hangar for help. In total, according to various sources, from 13 to 50 thousand homeless people live in Moscow.
The “Rescue Hangar” of the “Mercy” assistance service is located at: st. Nikoloyamskaya, in the courtyard no. 55 (metro stations Taganskaya, Kurskaya, Rimskaya).
Operating mode of the Rescue Hangar:
Monday-Friday: from 10.00 to 18.00
Saturday-Sunday: from 10.00 to 15.00 ( exact time the end of work depends on the hour of arrival of the “Social Patrol”).
Items and other donations can be brought around the clock by calling the person on duty in advance at: 89261580758.
Vagrancy, that is, the wandering of a citizen throughout the region or certain territory countries, not having the opportunity to live in a residential building, a common phenomenon in Russia, a shelter for people without a fixed place of residence and other social assistance from the state help them survive in such conditions.
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Vagrants are people who do not have a fixed place of residence and usually wander around their city. No one is immune from this, anyone can find themselves in the place of such a person, many become vagabonds, even after a good and rich life. For example, a man had big business, suddenly something went wrong in the organization’s finances and the company fell apart. His wife left him and took the apartment by deception. He has no parents or other relatives, he could not live with friends for long and began to drink.
He did not find a job, and in the end the man former businessman, ended up on the street. Such cases are not uncommon; people without a fixed place of residence need social protection from the state.
Social help turns out to be homeless and otherwise in need on the basis of Federal Law No. 442 “On the basics of social services for citizens in Russian Federation» dated December 28, 2013. Assistance is provided on the basis of circumstances existing for a particular citizen that worsen his living conditions. Such circumstances may include:
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REFERENCE. The Lyublino Social Adaptation Center has been operating in Moscow for 7 years and is the largest institution for helping the homeless in Russia: more than 400 people can live here. The center’s specialists help the homeless in restoring documents, finding employment, and even obtaining housing: during its existence, more than 70 people have received apartments. Currently, about 100 wards of the center are employed in permanent job at several factories in Moscow.
Among other activities, we are developing a project to create so-called social villages. Possible here different variants. Any suggestions Orthodox Church on the creation of settlements for the homeless. Eat interesting idea creating some kind of cooperatives for the homeless, where they could earn their own apartment for several years. We strongly support these steps.
Recently, the Moscow government adopted a resolution on the creation of so-called social residential buildings, in which it is planned to provide apartments to homeless people who have passed full course rehabilitation, including labor rehabilitation. But it turned out to be not so simple, and for now this program has stopped. And it's not even a matter of money. Money would probably have been found and abandoned houses would have been restored. But what next? After all, for complete rehabilitation, ideology is also necessary. These people will create families, children will be born in these families, and in a social housing building a person does not have the right to inherit housing. And then what to do with these children? A new generation of homeless people? Now we have single mothers with children living in our center. And we are forced to force them to give up their children. This is scary, but now there is not a single institution that could accept homeless mothers with children. During the existence of our center, seven children were born within our walls. Now they are all in orphanages. Some are simply abandoned by their parents, some are visited in the orphanage. But, you must agree, what kind of mother is this who appears once a month?
How to solve the problem of housing for the homeless? There are many small and medium-sized cities in Russia that have housing, but production is at a standstill due to a lack of labor. On the other hand, we have a workforce that does not have housing; it just needs to be organized and sent to the right regions. But the issue of accommodation for such people has not yet been resolved. Even our institution does not hold people for more than one year, not to mention the night shelters and hospitals that simply push them back onto the streets weak people. In my opinion, creating houses of industriousness would solve this problem. After all, people not only worked there and received money for it, but also lived permanently.