Bed And Board Provision For Beijing's Homeless

Source: Xinhua  |   2008-11-21  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

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VAGRANTS and beggars in Beijing will be given accommodation and meals as the winter temperature drops to minus °?degrees, according to the municipal relief administration center.

The center announced that as of last night, staff in the city's 18 relief stations would seek out °?vagrants and beggars. Each °?station is to reinforce street patrols, check the identities of vagrants and provide them with beds and meals. The centers will provide tickets back to their homes once their identities are confirmed.

Beijing has helped out about 57,000 vagrants and beggars since 2003, when China introduced a policy of providing for vagrants. It replaced the "custody and repatriation" system.


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