UN to help Ukraine’s homeless

Society - 21 February 2012, Tuesday 17:23

KYIV (QHA) - The United Nations has allocated USD 100,000 to help Ukrainian homeless people, Associated Press has disclosed on Tuesday.
The move come after over 150 people, mostly homeless, died during a severe cold snap.
According to the U.N. spokeswoman Viktoria Andriyevska, the money will be spent on warm clothing, food and heating centres.
Ukraine has been hit hard by a spell of severe cold earlier this month that has claimed 151 lives and left nearly 4,000 hospitalized with hypothermia and frostbite as temperatures plunged to minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit).
Emergency officials say in 90 percent of cases the victims died because they were under the influence of alcohol.
Experts say the problem has highlighted this ex-Soviet republic's inability and unwillingness to deal with homeless people.

 
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