Open from 8 am to 5 pm daily, the shelter will have washing facilities as well as food and drink.
Paul Pun Chi Meng
More needy residents apply to Caritas Macau which also extends a lifeline to blue card holders, many of whom have lost their jobs and have few other means of support.
Caritas Macau has plans to run a travel agency as a social enterprise to help people with disabilities go on trips.
Many businesses and community organisations have suspended all or some of their services to tackle the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) epidemic, but some services at Caritas Macau are among those that are still running.
Paul Pun Chi Meng said that people should accept their negative emotions and find a way to overcome them, in order to prevent possible suicide.
