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The Cape Town shelter where you won’t be turned away if you’re drunk

Pilot Sober Space project offers a bed to homeless people who have been drinking

Twelve beds have been set aside in Cape Town’s Culemborg Safe Space for people who arrive intoxicated. They are given blankets and a meal. Photos: Matthew Hirsch
Bonelwa Xaka lived on the streets of Cape Town for more than five years. Now she is a peer support specialist in a “Sober Space” pilot project in Cape Town, set up to offer a place to homeless people who would be turned away from other shelters because they are drunk.
Every night, Xaka opens the door to the 12-bed space, which is separate from the main dormitory in the City of Cape Town’s Safe Space in Culemborg on the Foreshore. The pilot programme, the result of a partnership between Streetscapes and the…

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