Assistance station looking for homeless people on streets
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:39
Recently, staff of Ningbo Assistance Station went to all corners of the towns and districts to look for vagrants and beggars, and tried to persuade those homeless people to celebrate the Spring Festival in the assistance station.
According to Hang Hongying, the Deputy-director of Ningbo Assistance Station, a lot has been done to help those who stayed temporarily in the station to go back home to celebrate the Spring Festival with their families. Up to now, the station has managed to buy railway tickets for all but six people who cannot name their home address. The station is now making every endeavor to help the remaining six to contact their families. Besides, the New Year’s Eve dinner has been arranged for them so that they can still enjoy a happy and peaceful new year in case that their families could not be found. Besides, staff of the station went to all towns and districts to look for vagrants and beggars at streets, and tried to persuade them to go to the station to celebrate the Spring Festival. However, as most of the homeless were unwilling to go to the station, the staff could only distribute them some materials for warmth and left them the phone number just in case. It is said that during the Spring Festival holiday, three groups of staff will go to persuade the vagrants and beggars on streets to go to stay in the station. In days of rainy and snowy weather and frozen weather, there will be more patrols on streets
