How can homeless people stay at home during a coronary crisis? Father Vladimír Maslák has dedicated his life to helping the homeless. In cooperation with volunteers, he renovated the abandoned buildings of the old monastery in Kláštor pod Znievom. Today, it provides shelter and a new home to more than 500 people who have decided to leave their past behind the gates of the facility and live in the present. Mr Maslák explained, „No alcohol is one of our most important rules. The other one is that everyone who comes to us has to work.“
ADRA Austria has a small branch in the congregation of the Adventist Church s.d. in Bruck an der Mur. The local believers are dedicated to collecting and sorting clothes, shoes and various necessities for the underprivileged. They also run a small charity shop. When they heard about the need for clothes and shoes for men, they immediately organised a collection.
We are delighted to have been able to bring these two charities together. So this week our yellow van - which, by the way, we were also given as a form of charity by CAP-distribution - made its way to Austria. They loaded us to the ceiling. Quality sorted clothes, shoes, blankets, medical supplies. In the evening our volunteers transported and handed over the aid directly to Father Maslak. The residents of the facility immediately put their hands to work to unload and carry everything to the warehouse.
During the first wave of COVID-19, we had the opportunity to help the residents of the facility with vitamins. We are glad that thanks to international cooperation we were able to bring a shipment of warm clothes, which they really need, during these cold days. Once again we saw how charity unites and crosses all borders - interpersonal, confessional and national...
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