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Author: Izabela Kołowska | Publish date: 13 November 2024

Helping the homeless in the autumn and winter

13 November 2024, Author: Izabela Kołowska

Cooler Nights and the approaching winter are a difficult time for people who are struggling with homelessness crisis. In the autumn and winter period, the homeless seriously are at risk of loss of health or life due to the danger associated with the cooling of the body. Let's not forget the people who are particularly in need Heat.

Remember About the fact that timely help can save someone's life. Let's not go through indifferently next to those in need of support. Let's notify the appropriate services when We see that someone needs help. The effectiveness of the aid depends on the activity of residents.

Urge to all residents of our city, especially in winter, attention to the fate of lonely people, the elderly, the homeless and all the people in need of help. Pay attention to people in the staircases stairs, in the vicinity of the station, allotment gardens. Let's not be indifferent.

People homeless people from the area of Ełk can use, m.in others, round-the-clock shelters and hot meal:

• Shelters (based on a referral from MOPS):

• St. Padre Pio Shelter in Ełk, 27 Kościuszki St. – year-round activity – women and men are accepted

• MARKOT Homeless Shelter in Ełk with its registered office in Rybczyzna, Rybczyzna 15A, 19-206 Rajgród – year-round activity – women and men are accepted

• Shelter with care services run by the Association of Educators and Therapists "Zaczarowani", 1 Kamieńska Street, Koleczkowo – year-round activity – women and men are accepted – detailed information at MOPS Ełk

• Night shelter run by the "Ku dobrego Nadziei" Association, 76 Grunwaldzka Street, Białystok – women and men are accepted – detailed information at MOPS Ełk

Heating Room:

from 1 October to 31 December, 7 days a week from 4 p.m. to 8 a.m.

from January 1 to April 30, 7 days a week from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m.

Caritas Kościuszki 18

Warm meal:

Issuing a hot meal in the canteen in Ełk, 17 Kościuszki Street in Ełk, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. serving hot meals, granted in accordance with the Act on Social Assistance, on the basis of an administrative decision of the Social Welfare Centre.

Institutions helping the homeless:

• Police: tel. 47 735 52 00 or emergency phone 997,

• Ambulance Service: emergency phone 999

• Municipal Guard: tel. 87 73 26 201 – duty officers, tel. emergency number 986

• Municipal Social Welfare Centre in Ełk tel. 87 732 67 18,

• St. Padre Pio "Caritas" Shelter of the Diocese of Ełk tel. 504 070 405,

• "Caritas" Warming Station of the Ełk Diocese tel. 504 070 405,

• St. Father Pio Day Care Home "Caritas" of the Diocese of Ełk, tel. 504 070 405,

• MONAR Association – MARKOT Homeless Shelter tel. 87 562 55 78, tel. 52608676

• The pan-European emergency number 112, which does not require unlocking the keypad of your mobile phone. In addition, 112 can be dialed on a phone that does not have a SIM card.

• A free, round-the-clock hotline for the homeless has been operating at the Provincial Crisis Management Centre of the Warmian-Masurian Voivode since 1 November 2021.

• By calling 800 165 320, interested persons can obtain information about shelters, night shelters and heating facilities in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

List is located at:

Warmińsko – Masurian Voivodeship Office in Olsztyn in the tab Registers kept in Department of Social Policy: https://www.gov.pl/web/uw-warminsko-mazurski/rejestry-prowadzone-w-wydziale-polityki and Social Policy

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