• Arrels foundation helped more than 600 homeless find shelter during 2015 •
Barcelona-based Fundación Arrels has launched a mobile app for iOS and Android devices that allows users to geo-locate homeless people found sleeping rough on the street and alert specially trained volunteers who can offer to help them with shelter and other necesities.
The free mobile app, called Arrels Localitzador, let users in Barcelona or elswhere in Catalonia pinpoint the location of homeless persons and automatically alert Arrels specialist teams trained to approach the person or groups of homeless in order to offer assistance.
The new mobile app is an extension of desktop application that last year resulted fielded 224 messages from passers-by about homeless people in the street. It is estimated there are as many as 900 people sleeping rough on Barcelona streets every night and in 2015, Arrels was able to help 611 individuals get off the streets and into temporary shelter or longer-term accomodation.
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