2024-01-08 20:29:47
A cold snap is starting in Belgium and is expected to last a good part of the week. Faced with this cold, municipalities are ready to help vulnerable people. In Brussels, the “Extreme Cold” plan is being intensified now and for one month.
The Belgian Red Cross is opening the “Centre Plan Grand Froid Anderlecht” this Monday with a capacity of 100 places. This center will remain operational for at least 1 month, renewable depending on weather conditions. It will provide accommodation for isolated men. Families and women will be directed to other structures.
This plan also provides for metro stations and train stations to remain open to accommodate the homeless. “The extreme cold plan is activated during periods of extreme weather conditions to allow homeless people who have no other solutions – therefore who have not been able to get a place in a reception center because they are saturated – to ‘have an alternative to spend the night within the station and during station closing hours, i.e. following the departure of the last train and the first departure of the first train in the morning’, explains Vincent Bayer, spokesperson for SNCB. “This concerns 4 country stations: Brussels-Midi station, Liège-Guillemins station, Ghent station and Antwerp station. Usually, the station is completely closed. But in the event of frost, the homeless have the opportunity to stay there all night.“
Last night around twenty people slept at the Gare du Midi. There were around fifteen of them in Liège-Guillemins.
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