A new community hub aimed at supporting the homeless and vulnerable people of Cork has opened on Kyrl\u2019s Quay.<\/p>\n
Located near the Supermac\u2019s building at the former North Main St carpark, the hub will help to provide hot meals, refreshments and a friendly space for anyone that is in need, along with facilities including seating and charging points.<\/p>\n
Primarily aimed at people sleeping rough, organisers including the Kindness Krew, a volunteer group in Cork city dedicated to helping people experiencing homelessness and vulnerability, are keen to stress that the hub is also open to all.<\/p>\n
This is including the elderly, isolated and vulnerable members of the community.<\/p>\n
The hub will ensure that Cork\u2019s most vulnerable residents have a warm and safe place to turn to, especially during the winter months.<\/p>\n
Jade Millar from Kindness Krew told The Echo that the new community hub will make a very big impact to the lives of many people.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOur service users now can come into a building, where they are not going to be soaking wet eating their dinner.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThey can sit down and enjoy eating their dinner, have a cup of tea, hot chocolate or charge their phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is just brilliant. We are actually really emotional because we have for so long been outside the Savoy looking after them. Now we have a building so it is just amazing.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
Dave O\u2019Brien, president of Cork Business Association, said that the new community hub will make a significant difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cCork Business Association welcomes the opening of the new community hub, providing a warm, safe, and welcoming space for people experiencing homelessness and vulnerability in our city. From a business perspective, bringing these vital services together in a dedicated hub is a positive and practical step.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreviously, supports were dispersed across very visible streets at night. This new approach improves the night time environment while ensuring people in need are cared for in a more appropriate, dignified and welcoming setting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new community hub aimed at supporting the homeless and vulnerable people of Cork has opened on Kyrl\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8932,79,42,29289,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-201487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-city-centre","tag-cork-news","tag-headlines","tag-homelessness","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}