A Refuge for Those Without Hope

Reinaldo Montecinos Yáñez arrived at a Hogar de Cristo shelter in Santiago in 2005. Serverly malnourished, he weighed only 29 kilograms. He did not even have the strength to walk. He went to the Hogar de Cristo to die. In time, however, he managed to get better, and still spends his nights on the mattresses at the shelter, and his days, volunteering there.

So is the Hogar de Cristo shelter to many in the community. It is where individuals go when they have no other hope, when their families have abandoned them and the streets are too cold or dangerous to brave alone. This particular shelter caters to the male senior citizen population of homeless.