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Aid organisation Samusocial has opened a new shelter for homeless single men in a former rest home in the Brussels neighbourhood of Forest.
The ORIG-AMI initiative, now in its fifth consecutive year, has set itself the objective of distributing between 500 to 1,000 cardboard tents and as many sleeping bags to the homeless in Belgium’s
In the cold, the wind, and the rain, hundreds of asylum seekers wait every day in front of the Petit Château in Brussels in the hope of being invited in.
The number of homeless people in Brussels, including children and young people as well as adults, has increased by 27.72% over the last two years but, according to an initial national census relea
As temperatures drop to below -10°C at night across Belgium, those who sleep on the country’s streets are in increased danger of freezing to death.
A survey undertaken by aid organisation Bruss'Help to determine the number of homeless people in Brussels took place on Monday night between 23.00 and midnight.
In the midst of a second wave of coronavirus infections, under a curfew and with winter on its way, the capacity for homeless shelters in the Brussels region are at breaking point, and there is a
