NGOs help thousands of jobless, homeless Muscovites to survive

A woman from the NGO Notschleschka distributes food to the homeless in Moscow. — dpa

Darkness had already set over Moscow when a group of about 100 people began to gather in a small car park behind the tracks of Jaroslav Station. It’s mainly men who wait in line every day for a bowl of soup, a cup of black tea and a couple of biscuits in this grim corner of the otherwise lively Russian capital.

But this is often the only chance for Moscow’s many homeless people to get any support during the coronavirus pandemic because the government, they say, has abandoned them. Only with the help of NGOs and volunteers are they able to survive.