Ruchama Night Shelter

Sub egida Primariei Municipiului Cluj-Napoca

LOCATION

The activity of the Center takes place in a building received from the Cluj-Napoca City Council. The Building, an ex-school, restaurated and transformed in order to serve for the actual destination, is situate on 29 Oasului Street.

BENEFICIARES

The beneficiaries of this center are 92 homeless people who can enter the center every night at 18:30 p.m and they must go out of the center in the morning.

The Night Shelter Ruchama also houses for a period of 3-10 days juvenile delinquents untill the Police of Cluj-Napoca finishes their investigation.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

First thing we make sure that the persons assisted do not carry any alcohol, drugs or weapons as these are forbidden during their stay in the center.

Next, after they are awshed and disinfected, the beneficiares get a place to sleep where, besides resting, they have the possibility of reading or playing.

In the morning, after cleaning the rooms in which they slept, they have to leave the center. For the daytime, we are trying to find them a place to work and those who cannot find a job are using their time to work for the community.

PARTNERS

Once a week, the beneficiares recieve spiritual assistence from an orthodox priest, the coordinator of the shelter being also a missionary priest.

For developing this programme, Prison Fellowship Romania benefits from a direct partenership with Cluj-Napoca Municipality and the city police.

The University of Cluj is also providing a number of 25 students as volunteers of the Night Shelter RuchamA.

In addition to this, Bonus Pastor Foundation develops in the center a program for the persons addicted to alcohol and/or drugs.

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