Within the framework of the Homeless People Campaign, Cáritas, together with other entities supporting this group, develops this campaign with the culmination of the celebration of Homeless People’s Day, next October 29.
In this edition, the entities that promote the Campaign we want directly challenge each person and each community with the following motto: “SHARE YOUR NETWORK. DON’T LET THEM LEFT OUT OF COVERAGE”. This proposal invites us to action, to overcome difficulties and discouragement by sharing objectives and actions.
In this year’s campaign we want to focus on the special vulnerability of homeless women. Delving into their reality through attentive listening to their testimony forces us, not only to claim their rights with them but also to rethink and address social intervention and support for these people, providing safe spaces that allow them to undertake processes and access to a dignified life.
The community can and should be a space for meeting, welcoming and living, it is not just about providing basic needs, we know that it is when we welcome, accompany and participate, we all generate possibilities and transformative processes. As an emerging Church, we need to work in a coordinated and comprehensive manner with public administrations, other organizations, the neighborhood, and society as a whole, and thus, offer the comprehensive and integrative response that homeless people need.
When we work from the perspective of rights, with community responses we are sharing our network to claim rights and generate a network that links.
In addition to accompanying people who suffer from homelessness, Cáritas has been working for some time to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not discriminated against in their right to have decent housing. In its political proposals for the Second National Strategy
Comprehensive for homeless people 2022-30, our organization insists on the need to address “as soon as possible – by the Administration, also the State – the lack of a public stock of social/emergency housing for people and families in situation of homelessness and homelessness in the Spanish State.”
SOME DATA ABOUT THE PEOPLE SERVED BY THE HOMELESS PROGRAM OF CÁRITAS DIOCESANA DE CORIA-CÁCERES DURING 2022
There are many years that guarantee the work of Diocesan Caritas of Coria-Cáceres intended for homeless people, analyzing its causes and consequences, allocating human and material resources to address it, carrying out awareness-raising actions that help focus and reverse this problem; but, above all, putting a face and name to life stories who approach the entity seeking guidance and comfort to respond to the lack of the most basic needs.
The Cáritas Diocesana de Coria-Cáceres Homeless People Program has three different resources:
He Social Emergency Center, sIt is configured as a resource with low regulations, where basic needs are covered, it has 8 places for men and two for women and is open from 10:00 p.m. to 10:00 a.m.
He Life Center, It has 16 seats. Its function as a reception center is to try to help people comprehensively, taking into account their complexities and covering much more than the simple fact of providing accommodation, food or clothing.
Autonomous Living Apartments: Caritas enabled three floors of autonomous living 3 seats each. The apartments are configured as a resource of assistance and promotion of the person. Normalization and social integration interventions are developed, providing a comprehensive itinerary through therapeutic and socio-educational intervention, accompanying the process of promoting autonomy and the development process of new vital projects, and providing a housing alternative, as a final stage. of the processes of change and improvement, which is aimed at the social and labor reintegration of each person.
Throughout the year 2023 (as of September 30), since Homeless Program 159 have been treated people, the vast majority men (88%), of Spanish nationality (75%).
At the Emergency Center, 99 people (85 men and 14 women) have been treated, mostly of Spanish nationality (60%). At the Life Center, 95 people (85 men and 10 women) have been treated, mainly of Spanish nationality (73%). And in the Autonomous Life apartments, 11 people have been cared for, all of them men, mainly of Spanish nationality (70%).
The The age range is 45 to 64 years old. This data reveals that they are the people with the greatest difficulty in getting a job, financial benefits, accessing resources… in short, they have the most difficulty in getting out of homelessness.
And 11 % suffer from some type of Mental illness, and the 25 % has suffered or is suffering from some type of addiction. With respect to employment, and 45% is in a situation of unemploymentand waiting for an opportunity to join working life and from there achieve social reintegration.
The function of Cáritas through the Homeless People Program aims to welcome, accompany and support this group in accessing their rights, starting from the capabilities and potential they have as people, giving them the leading role in their lives and facilitating from the beginning their participation in their own recovery processes.
In this context, Cáritas Diocesana de Coria-Cáceres invites citizens, on a personal basis, to commit and contribute to improving the quality of life of people in situations of exclusion or homelessness, to try to put themselves in the shoes of others, or to wonder about the reality that the most vulnerable people are experiencing and participate in the eventsawareness-raising activities that will take place during the week of October 23 to 29:
- Wednesday, October 25, we will carry out a Flahmob in the Main Square with the collaboration of Higher Module of Physical Activities of the IES Al-Qazeres..
- Thursday, October 26that 12:00 in the morning, We will have a presence on the street with the intention of giving visibility to the situation of homeless people in the C/ San Pedro. Furthermore, on this same day, as usual every last Thursday of the month, the Circle of Silence in the Plaza de San Juan de Cáceres at 8:00 p.m.on this occasion dedicated to the Homeless.
- Friday October 27th At 12:00 in the morning, we will have a presence on the street with the intention of giving visibility to the situation of homeless people on C/ San Pedro de Alcántara
- Domingo October 29that 13:00Homeless People’s Day will be celebrated with a Eucharist in the parish of Our Lady of Fátima of Cáceres.
Cáritas continues to insist that Nobody Homeless can and must be a reality, and for this the common commitment promoted by the campaign this year is essential: Let’s say enough! Nobody Homeless.
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