18:00, 9 April 2011

Photo Exhibition "Homeless People" opens in Rostov

Exhibition "Homeless People" at the Don State Public Library. Portraits are ready to take their places. Rostov-on-Don, April 8, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"

Within the Charity Film Festival "Stalker" held in Rostov-on-Don an exhibition of photographs "Homeless People" was launched.

Streets of Rostov-on-Don are decorated with huge banner with an appeal to help homeless people in creation of an office for partially disabled ones. The room for these social ads was granted free of charge by the Association of Advertising Agencies of the city.

"The main aim of the project," Gennady Smolyanov, director of the centre for helping homeless people of Rostov, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, "is to attract the attention of civil society activists, individuals and legal entities to the problem of homelessness, and to try to change the negative, and sometimes, aggressive attitude of the society to the people, who find themselves in the street."

Those who address the centre receive information about how to help, when meeting a homeless person. Some people bring clothes and money to the centre.

Author: Natalya Bazhenova

Source: CK correspondent