The Mariupol shelter for the homeless will build a bathhouse. The local authorities assigned 250,000 hryvnias for the modernization of the complex. “We want socially unprotected people to have an opportunity to wash regularly,” Serhii Kravchenko, director of the local Center for Homeless, explained. The public establishment also has other plans for the coming cold season — to offer the homeless a medical examination after washing and undergoing tests for tuberculosis, venereal diseases and so on. They will also be able to change, eat a hot meal and stay for a night, so that they will not freeze to death somewhere in a basement or an attic. According to the calculation of the public organizations, there are roughly 2,500 homeless people without passports in Donetsk, while the region counts ten times more. Yakiv Rohalin, director of the regional charitable foundation Dobrota, asserts that the main categories of the homeless are old people, the illegally evicted, alcoholics, and former prisoners that could not find official employment.
By the way, recently the Mariupol law-enforcement agencies faced a specific side of the problem. They found a concealed land plot of cannabis on the outskirts of the city. Its area is larger than a hectare and a homeless group looked after it. The owners of the plot, which is worth tens of millions of hryvnias, planned their operations well: such guards will not steal the harvest as they would not be able to sell it and if they get caught by the police, none would know what to do with them.
