Open from 8 am to 5 pm daily, the shelter will have washing facilities as well as food and drink.
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.
Macau-based Portuguese bank BNU said in a statement that it has donated MOP 100,000 (US$12,500) to Roman-Catholic social service organisation Caritas Macau
