KOZHIKODE: No abandoned women or children will sleep on the streets of Kozhikode as the Department for Social Justice, after a long wait, has launched its project ‘Ende Koodu’ that provides shelter at night for these destitutes.
On Monday, in the premises of the Kasaba Police station, Minister for Social Justice and Panchayath MK Muneer inaugurated the shelter and threw it open to all destitutes.
This is a pilot project. When the news flashed on the brutal attack against a child who was sleeping on the pavement at Tirur in Malappuram district was, it was an eye opener”, said Minister. This is the first phase and following its success, more such projects will be started in various parts of the State.
It is the once dilapidated former village office building situated at the premises of the Kasaba Police station that has been used for the shelter. Equipped with enough facilities for destitute women and children to have an easy and safe night, Ende Koodu has appointed two guards and a warden for the house.
The minster asked for help from the public to popularize the project by informing destitutes about the facilities at the shelter home. He even requested autorikshaw drivers and porters who get to see more such people, to disseminate information about the facility.
