YEREVAN. – The Yerevan Municipality of Armenia’s capital city, together with the Hans Christian Kofoed Armenian-Danish charitable foundation, carries out—since December 2011—a program of accommodating the capital city’s homeless in temporary shelters.

Since the beginning of this year, a total of 133 homeless people were taken to shelters, and 100 of them still live in these shelters, the Municipality informed.

Since December 2011 to this day, 41 homeless went to live with their families, 66 have found jobs and returned to independent living, seventeen were transferred to a specialized boarding houses, eleven homeless persons—who had mental disorders and were drug and alcohol addicts—were transferred to specialized institutions for treatment, ten have married and returned to independent living.

In addition, four Russian citizens moved back to their homeland, two homeless—who were wanted by the police—were arrested, and eighteen others were issued passports.