Five years ago, I started writing ABC Cordoba. I’ve dedicated the first column to talking about words and being grateful for the privilege of being able to express what I look and see, and the verbs chosen to label this space are reserved each week. The second is entitled “ … Curfew residents are born from the elements. Yes, a decision was issued prohibiting movement and remaining on the streets at a certain time. Today it seems unbelievable, almost impossible to believe, but it happened like this and we lived through it during the pandemic. The government described it as a “restriction Night navigation», which is a broad euphemism to hide the complete curfew, at eleven o’clock.
I remember one unpleasant night, when I was returning home, just before the hour was up. “Minus a quarter,” I warned myself, and I quickened my pace. I barely hit anyone and there were no vehicles on the road. road. That silence and imposed absence was strange.
Then my gaze saw many people who had nowhere to return to. There was a curfew, but they were still on the street, without shelter. While most of us fled to the safety of our family, affection, and company, in a difficult and sad time, they were left out, Nudists shelter Lonely. It was cold, it was raining, and I felt my body and heart freezing: cold, shy, and compassionate.
Thus the second column appeared. She could write – after all, she was a newcomer who needed an introduction – about some personal matters, about words And the opinion, or about the opportunity represented by that beginning. But I was unable to face the reality that was imposed so mercilessly.
Today, in the same month and under the same cold, five years later, in a cruel coincidence, there is still a need and urgency to protect those who live, or live poorly, on sidewalks, driveways, parks and bridges. In Cordoba, four hundred people live there and suffer when the city stops. city council, Institutions and OrganizationsThose who work daily to improve their living conditions are trying to mitigate the consequences of this situation.
Diocesan CaritasThe Spanish Red Cross, the Prolibertas, Hogar Sí, Don Bosco Salesianos Social, Adeat and the City Council itself make up the CoHbita network, whose dedicated and commendable work is dedicated to the care of the homeless. Everyone now joins the plan “Cool surprise”while expanding the spaces in its facilities, with the aim – and deep desire – that no one should have to sleep under the open sky when the weather becomes inhospitable.
The city cannot and does not want to allow the elements to be its fate nor the street to be condemned. Institutional response is necessary, and it is responsive Organizations It is necessary, but the question remains the same that accompanied me on the night of the ban: Will it be enough? However, hope.