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Romania : Help to the homeless with the SAMU Social in Bucharest

the Carrefour International Foundation help to provide better care for homeless people.

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Over 300 people die each year on the streets of Bucarest, two thirds of them in winter.

To compensate for a lack of shelter for Bucarest's 5,000 homeless adults in 2006, SAMU Social set up emergency shelters providing accommodation for 230.

Since 2007, the Carrefour International Foundation has been helping to provide better care for homeless people by supporting a hygiene facility for 20 people per day. It has six showers for men and women, two toilets, washing machines and cloakrooms with changes of clothes.

SAMU Social owns and runs a medico-psycho-social surgery financed by Carrefour Rpoumania, which is currently the only specialized multidisciplinary care unit available to over 2,600 homeless adults in Bucarest.

The hygiene facility supplements the services provided by SAMU Social (hospital, emergency and post-emergency medical services, shelter, access to social rights and guaranteed minimum income etc), which are based on the principle of restoring self-confidence.

With proven results:

Over 2,000 homeless adults benefit from hygiene services each year;

10 adults attend creative workshops twice a week and over 8,000 hours will be spent providing direct assistance to homeless people during the course of the project.

Carrefour also intends to boost the partnership by providing the equipment needed to run the hygiene facility.