"Being on the street is much more than being cold. It is fear and rejection looks & quot;

"Go putting layers that start to get cold." And the hats, the gloves, the polar liners, the jackets with lamb ... fulfilled the order that the journalist Helena Resano gave from the stage of the first edition of The Homeless Night - which is done in more than fifty cities around the world- celebrated in Spain organized by the Hogar Sí Foundation . "Before when we were walking, it didn't show that much, but now it starts to get cold." She is Marta , an insurer's worker who turns 46 today and celebrates it outdoors to "make people who live on the street visible."

Beside him, Francisco and Marina sleep in the Plaza del Matadero with other people parapeted under their sleeping bags and duvets. "These tiles are freezing," shouts a group of girls barely touching the age of majority. Eva carries the singing voice in this small part of the camp in one of the corners of the square. "We had it very clear since we saw it on TV that we were coming," he says. And the rest of the group nodded in unison as if they had rehearsed.

First there was time for the music of Andrés Suárez , Marlango , Marwan , De Pedro , La La Love You or Maika Makovski . "You will have brought thermos, I imagine," asked the host of La hora musa . And from the backpacks and the macutos, those thermos gradually appeared as the night progressed. There he took his Inés accompanied by much of his family. "This afternoon I started to make some broth to bring it here," says this retired woman who refuses to reveal her age. "That doesn't matter, but it makes it clear that this is not just a young thing," he says forcefully.

You only need to walk a little among people to corroborate it. Families and couples are dotted between groups of teenagers already far from puberty. Like that of Pablo and Beatriz , already touching the quarantine and with ten years of relationship behind them. "It is not going to be our most romantic night, but it is a way to make visible the problem we have with people sleeping on the street," they say, dressed in two jackets that are well accompanied with two scarves. "And two pairs of socks and thermal shirt," both add.

The thermal shirt is the must in a square in Matadero where Marta and Ana , mother and daughter, have contributed "their grain of sand" of the more than 2,000 euros that only tonight Hogar Yes has raised and will stop to give housing Homeless people. "It is something that people avoid when we go down the street and many times we do not even know how to deal with it," said the mother of three children who has been accompanied by only one of them. "When she grows a little more, she will come alone to spend the night here alone, I am clear about it," she says before her daughter's gaze.

A night in the openness to which Juan puts the postilla. "This is just a gesture, let's not forget it. We are cold on the street, yes. But being homeless is much more than that. It is the cold, the fear that they may assault you, people's rejection looks. All that's much worse than the cold. " As he speaks, the rest of the people around him look at this 53-year-old man as if he were the preacher in the temple. And so, under the full moon, the zippers of the bags are closed. But just for one night, I don't eat another 31,000 people in the capital.

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