David Paskiri Biography

Galina Artemenko Cultural laundry earned on Borovaya, now homeless people can wash and dry their clothes to look decent and, accordingly, feel more confident and better. It all started with the fact that Grigory Sverdlin, the head of the “overnight stays”, rushed with the idea to organize the showerful in St. Petersburg for the homeless with washing machines and a dryer-because it is also a problem, and when it smells bad, all dreams of finding a more or less decent work can be buried.

David says that they immediately abandoned any mobile wash points - energy and water must be constant, the machines should be powerful. The place was found near the "night", the rent, of course, is commercial, but divine. It’s far away, but maybe it is for the better - people can come calmly, an employee of the “overnight stays” will show them how to turn on the car. Andrei Chapaev is a connoisseur of St.

Petersburg, the guide and manager of the Night Bus project project excavated somewhere in the archives that there was just a huge overnight house in the Old Petersburg-more than three hundred places. So Genius Loci the genius of place helps us - they laugh in the "night". Grigory Sverdlin says that anyone can come to wash the laundry here. There are few circumstances have it: “Not only homeless people are lined up with us with a hot soup on the parking lots of the“ night bus ”-a quarter of people are older people from the surrounding houses, teenagers who, for some reason, left home, former orphanages, all those who have nothing to buy food for this evening, and with all our projects-if a person came to us, then he came to us, then he needs it.

help". The idea with a shower for the homeless is not forgotten - the project is completely ready. This will be such a shower complex the size of a container for distant transportation, with showers, including disabled people, washing and drying machines, toilets, including for disabled people. Rospotrebnadzor does not mind.

They are looking for only a place - this requires a good will of officials or Russian Railways so that the complex stood at one of the station officials, or to put showers in one of the city areas. A descending person loses its taste for life and strength to fight circumstances. The lower the person falls, the more difficult it is for him to rise. Michael will call him like that. Does not want to be photographed.

It turns away from the cameras. Small stature, thin, with a thin face. The mechanical engineer, who lost touch with his relatives and his hometown, has nowhere to leave. But there is no registration. It is hard to work - age and homelessness. He works as a loader - in 12 hours a maximum of a thousand rubles. The laundry is sincerely glad - one problem is less.

Previously, either searched for cheaper - where you can get rubles for a hundred, or simply wore things until they had to throw them away. Alexander does not hide the name, but agrees to talk not on the camera. From Mariupol, he left the war, does not want to fight on anyone - “I am a Soviet person”, although his wife and children remained in Ukraine, in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.

The migration card is expired. He worked here as a builder, but deceived - they did not pay money. Now homeless. Laundry for him is also an important matter - at least one problem is less. So far, I have not decided how it would get out of this situation, but I didn’t want to return home categorically. It installed eight pairs of washing and drying machines of a standard size and one washing machine for overall objects.

In one working day, the laundry room will be able to serve the washing and drying cycles.