1
Other convertibles / Book your ticket for the best concerts
« on: September 09, 2023, 06:53:43 am »Before the pandemic he had a good job in maintenance work that paid for a small apartment. But he lost his job during the Covid-19 pandemic, he started drinking heavily and became homeless. Both Mykola and Oleh hope that the current moment of peace in kyiv will give them the opportunity to find work. Meanwhile, like many other homeless people, they have done their share of wartime volunteering.
Oleh worked four two-day shifts unloading at the central train station, while Phone Number List helped volunteers from a soup kitchen load boxes at a subway station. Relations with the police With the number of armed soldiers on the streets of kyiv increasing, life for the homeless has become more complicated, especially for those without passports or other documents. Strict identity checks and a high level of suspicion can be dangerous for those living on the streets without documents.

In times of war, in my opinion, a certain suspicion has been added to the threats [homeless people face],” said Ihor Shemihona, a social worker with House of Mercy, a Christian aid organization. "If a person does not have documents, he may be suspected [to the police or the army] of some kind of sabotage or something bad." Shemihona recalled that during the process of evacuating people to western Ukraine, his organization had in its care a man with a Russian passport who at that time lacked documents, and decided not to evacuate him "because transporting such a person through the checkpoints or the border is dangerous for ourselves. At the same time, homeless people understand the challenges of the current situation and try to cooperate with the authorities as much as possible.
