Last year the cold telephone rang 800 times in Graz, the emergency sleeping place was overloaded. Vinzi and Caritas provide additional places for homeless people for the winter in Styria.
Last year the cold telephone rang 800 times in Graz, the emergency sleeping place was overloaded. Vinzi and Caritas provide additional places for homeless people for the winter in Styria.
"We will see more people on the street," says Caritas Director Nora Tödtling-Musenbichler. The emergency shelters at VinziWerke are partly overcrowded with 102 percent. Both organizations create additional beds for the winter.
In Graz the need is getting bigger: an emergency sleeping place was last used to 102 percent. For the winter, relief organizations create additional sleeping places. Anyone who sees people outdoors can get help via the cold telephone.