The director of Caritas La Rioja, Marcial Menchaca, said that the host of this group in the region conducted in 2007 1.793 attentions, 856 to 937 Spaniards and foreigners. Most of the people who went to Caritas to seek this kind of help were men (1,651). Menchaca stressed that the crisis "we hear so many requests that we are a little overwhelmed at times, but always forward. And the thing that seems to be going to get worse. " The crisis has led many people, in addition to calling for accommodation, food should also claim.
Many young people
The average age of homeless people is 38 years, but the director of Caritas La Rioja explained that "there are also many young people between 18 and 29 years old, because older people are already operating in residential care or in the Services Industry ".
The causes that lead a person to end up in the street are varied: evictions, loss of employment, young people who leave home with little income or who have suffered marital breakdown. More than a third of people have never tried alcohol or drugs and 13% are university graduates, "added Marcial Menchaca, seeking to break stereotypes.
Caritas is working with municipalities to host various programs. For example, your center of the neighborhood of La Estrella hosted in a month to 546 temporary and is now preparing for the nights cooler and more demand for the year. It also aims to develop the program 'Heat and coffee', in which a group of youths offered hot coffee and conversation to homeless people "to which we are taking home a carton by a bank or an ATM." Menchaca insisted that a home "is more than a roof, is sharing the intimate site, neighbors ..."
No comments:
Post a Comment