Hundreds of homeless people find shelter from the cold in Bucharest City Hall’s centers

Some 600 homeless people found shelter from the cold in Bucharest City Hall’s social centers. 508 of them are housed in the Theodor Pallady social service complex and 92 in the center in Berceni, according to a statement of the City Hall. On Monday night, when the temperature dropped to some minus 10 degrees Celsius in Bucharest, the General Directorate of Social Assistance and the local Police found 28 homeless people on the streets and took them to the social centers. The authorities have offered hot tea, soup, and warm clothes to those who have refused to go to these centers. The mobile teams will also be present on Tuesday night at the North Train Station in Bucharest to help those in need. US and British Ambassadors, hotel manager to serve hot soup to the homeless in Bucharest Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com