A beacon for Medellin’s homeless addicts from the abyss of crack
Medellin’s homeless population tends to be very hidden unless you are downtown, walking along the Medellin river, or in one of the city’s two homeless attention centers.
Medellin’s homeless population tends to be very hidden unless you are downtown, walking along the Medellin river, or in one of the city’s two homeless attention centers.
Hundreds of homeless people returned to the streets of Colombia’s second largest city after apparently being removed by authorities to leave a good impression while the city was hosting the…
Last year’s tropical storms cost insurance companies a record breaking $360 million dollars, according to the Director of the Camara de Terremoto of the Colombian Federation of Insurers (Fasecolda). “In…
A police raid to round up homeless people was filmed by one of the participants, a policeman-in-training, and later posted on YouTube, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. About six minutes…
Colombia’s minister for housing, the environment and territorial development, Carlos Costa Posada, said Thursday that some 450,000 displaced families remain homeless, and only 12% of those forcibly removed from their land…
Medellin’s fourth “X Factor – Street Edition,” a singing competition for the city’s homeless population that was inspired by the world famous reality TV show, kicks off today in homeless shelters around…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will visit the fire-destroyed town of Riosucio, in the north-west Choco department Tuesday, to observe the reconstruction effort and to speak to locals who lost everything…
Colombia’s Ministry of the Interior says that the mayor’s office was negligent in not having a fire department to fight the blaze that destroyed at least 60 houses and left…
Up to 20,000 people have been left homeless around Colombia by devastating weather brought by the rainy season, which officially started on April 6th, according to disaster relief director Luz Amanda Pulido.…