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On 6 November, the FEANTSA Ending Homelessness Awards, gold, silver and bronze prizes were awarded by Marian Harkin MEP to innovative homelessness projects which have been funded by the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD).
 
In collaboration with the European Commission Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, this is the second year in a row that FEANTSA has run these awards to recognise smart and sustainable uses of EU funding to fight homelessness across Europe.

Meet the Winners:

This is a service provided in Berlin for homeless mobile German and EU citizens in a range of languages including Bulgarian, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, English, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Russian. The project provides counselling in existing homelessness services (day centres, night shelters, GP surgeries etc) which allows service users to receive advice and support on location. Service users are also informed of their rights, often for the first time. By offering the support in several languages, clients are able to better make use of social services.


Silver: Vulnerable EU Migrants - Kirkens Korshær Kompasset
This Danish service provides outreach services for often hard-to-reach destitute EU mobile citizens, many of whom struggle to access low-threshold services due to marginalisation, mental health issues or substance abuse. This outreach is accompanied by advocacy work: filing complaints, campaigning against the increasing prohibition of sleeping in public spaces etc.


Bronze: Better Health – The City of Gothenburg
This project is a cooperation between Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, the Salvation Army, the Rescue Mission and the Health Centre for Homeless people. Its aim is to provide medical help and advice to vulnerable EU migrants – most of whom are Roma, but some are also from Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, Albania and Croatia. Doctors, nurses, nutritionists and midwives go out and map the needs of the service users and provide them with health information.

More information about each project will shortly be available in the form of a Handbook, which will be published before the end of the year. In the meantime, please contact Emma Nolan if you would like to be put in touch with any of the project leaders.
 
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