Yearly cleaning day: tidy up the leaves in the park
One time per year the community in the city here helps cleaning up the neighborhood. As Fountain of Life, we thought it is good to cooperate in this. Therefore the staff decided to join forces with our homeless clients to clean up a park in the neighborhood. Next to cleaning, of course, there should also be a good meal to regain strength to clean up more 🙂
Homeless women
At the end of the winter we wanted to give a short update. We are working as usual, although we prevent having too many people in the center at the same time due to COVID prevention. In this post we want protray an often not mentioned group of homeless people: women. Although the majority of homeless people are men, we also receive many women in our centre. Often they have a long problematic past. Some are not able to take care of their families any more due to, for example, excessive drinking. We also often assist in getting X-rays done, if there are reasons to assume that this person has for example Tubercolosis (TBC). Unfortunately, also this winter this was the case sometimes.
Below some pictures of women that visit us. For privacy reasons we blur out the faces on the images:
Also a homeless woman keeps her elegance
Christmas meal in a homeless shelter
Also a Christmas meal has been provided for the people in a city shelter, called Kolomto
Preparing the septic tank
One of the final stages for the hospice is to install a septic tank. Here some photos of the preparation.
Winter is coming soon
Winter is coming. This is the most difficult time for homeless, since it will be cold and it is more difficult to find a warm and safe place to sleep. Fortunately, through Fountain of Life, also a lot of clothes can be distributed to the homeless
If you have some clean clothes that are in good quality, but you do not use them anymore, please consider donating them to Fountain of Life, so we can redistribute them. We especially are looking for men clothes, but also women clothes are welcome.
Some items which are especially useful:
- warm winter jackets
- warm sweaters and shirts for layered wearing
- socks and warm shoes
Please click here how to contact us, or please fill out the form, if you feel you can helps us. Thanks you very much!