More than 30 people were sheltered from the cold in a SEN shelter

People receiving sheltered food and warm clothes at the shelter. Photo: IP Agency.

Asunción, IP Agency.- Between Sunday night and early Monday morning, a total of 31 people were transferred to the shelter set up by the National Emergency Secretariat on the Costanera Norte of Asunción, where they were provided with blankets and other comforts to take refuge from the cold.

The Jaho’i Operation of the National Emergency Secretariat is currently active due to the low temperatures recorded during the season.

Since its reactivation last week, the main shelter of the operation, set up on the Costanera Norte of Asunción, has been receiving an increasingly large number of homeless people who require shelter from the low temperatures.

Between last night and early morning, 29 homeless men and two women were taken to the shelter and received all the care provided there. Beds, blankets, hot food, and toilet facilities, among other things, are the amenities they have at the shelter.

Two other people were treated on the street and given mattresses, blankets and hot meals, explained Ruben Cuevas, an official from the National Emergency Secretariat, who is the coordinator of the shelters.

In these cases, when homeless people prefer to stay in their usual places where they spend the night, they are provided with what they need to protect themselves from the cold. They cannot be forced to move to the shelter, he explained.

In addition to the shelter on the Costanera Norte of Asunción, the National Emergency Secretariat, in collaboration with a private company, has another operational shelter in the city of Limpio.

The numbers to report cases of homeless people exposed to low temperatures are 0986 111 001 and the National Police’s 911.