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Let’s be sensitive to people experiencing homelessness

24.11.2022

People deprived of shelter in the autumn and winter are exposed to the loss of health or life due to hypothermia. For those who live in public spaces and non-residential places, a significant drop in temperature and snowfall are a deadly threat.

Bądźmy wrażliwi na osoby w kryzysie bezdomności

Therefore, we should react when we notice people staying in the cold for a long time or dressed inadequately to the weather conditions. Let us be sensitive to the needs of those who seek shelter in basements, gazebos or abandoned buildings on cold days.

We should also remember about people who live alone. Elderly and sick people who live in our neighbourhood do not always cope with heating buildings and flats.

If you spot such people, notify the relevant services:

  • emergency number 112,
  • Municipal Police – all-Poland phone number 986,  
  • Police –phone number 997.

Voivodeship Emergency Management Centres also operate free hotlines via which information on shelter, soup kitchens, points where material, financial, legal and medical support is provided throughout the voivodeship can be obtained.

First of all, we call on representatives of various services: social workers, municipal police and the police, to constantly monitor areas and uninhabitable places, and to reach out with information and aid to all lonely, sick and for – various reasons – homeless people who need particular support in autumn and winter.

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