Homelessness

 171 people have stayed at the Crisis Center for Homelessness in the capital.

Municipal authorities in Athens have announced measures to protect homeless people and other vulnerable groups in the Greek capital from the cold weather.

City Hall said that a heated hall in the Athens Municipal Cultural Center on Academias Street will open to the public at 10 p.m. on Friday.

People in need can call the help number 1595 for information.

Sounding quite pleased with himself, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Sunday announced a municipal program to register homeless people in the center of the Greek capital. The program was launched on Saturday.

Every second homeless person in the capital comes from the province, according to data from social workers from the crisis centers in Sofia show. "These are mainly people from small towns who come to Sofia to work as builders and taxi drivers.

"The main boulevards in the capital are clean. Public transport moves on its usual routes. The stops, as well as subway approaches, are clean. This is the first task of cleaning companies in the morning. They will continue their work on the main streets as well as on the sidewalks adjacent to the municipal land, "said Mayor Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, quoted by Nova TV.

The death of a talented young Romanian who jumped off the dome of London's landmark St Paul's Cathedral has caused widespread shock in the UK.

Lida Dragescu, aged 23, leapt to her death on October 11 from the so-called Whispering Gallery, which runs round the interior of the baroque dome of the Cathedral designed in the 17th century by Christopher Wren.

The buildings of the former management of the sanatorium complex "Mineral Baths" were completely burnt, and the abandoned buildings were destroyed last night in a fire, according to locals they were inhabited by homeless people, fortunately there were no victims in the fire.

A renovation of a homeless homeless shelter was carried out. The activities cost a total of BGN 30,000, reports novini. 

This is what the director of the Crisis Center for Homeless people in the Zaharna Fabrika district of Sofia, Dragoslava Lundjova, told FOCUS.

Bosnian officials met to discuss how to resolve the issue of some 7,200 people made homeless by the 1990s war who are still living in temporary accommodation in so-called ‘collective centres’.

Twelve members of a criminal gang forcing Syrian children to beg on the streets were detained in an operation by the police on Sept. 11 in Istanbul.