During this period of confinement and while the streets were emptied, thousands of people were cut off from the world. And if the risk of contracting the coronavirus is already a major issue for these people, their social situation is also worrying.
Lack of donations, social ties, insecurity, but also difficulties in feeding, confining oneself, treating oneself or even being screened: faced with an alarming situation, an emergency envelope of 65 million euros has been invested by the government in the first weeks of the health crisis.
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The winter break and the end of the winter campaign have been postponed until May 31, 2020. A toll-free number has been set up 7 days a week to help homeless people 0800 94 66 90 diagnose and be taken care of. Finally, more than 172,000 people have been in France have been accommodated while the government has just mobilized 10,800 additional hotel places.
Women, double victims of the health crisis
In Paris alone in February 2020, there were more than 3,550 people living on the streets. And among them, 12% of women. A population doubly victim of the health situation: on the one hand faced with medical risks, on the other faced with a lack of protections and sometimes alarming social situations.
In this context where the role of local authorities and associations is essential to help the greatest number, more than 73 help centers have also been opened throughout the country to receive but above all medically treat sick homeless people from Covid- 19.
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Discover one of these centers from the inside, south of Paris, in the former La Rochefoucauld hospital, where the members of the Aurore association host and care for isolated women daily affected by the coronavirus as well as their families.
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