The Efforts

We offer harm reduction efforts as well as acute and bridge-building health and social services, and we provide access to food, shelter, clothing, warmth and security to socially vulnerable people from all over the country – including abroad.

We create a basis for realistic change and compensate for the abuse and neglect that vulnerable people often live with. We minimize the harms of health, social and economic harms of life on the streets. We provide access to safe accommodation and rest, healthy meals, wound care, medication and vaccination. We create a basis for people to participate in improving their own life situation.

Our work is based on high professionalism and specialized social and health expertise regarding the needs and life situation of extremely vulnerable people. Our efforts are driven by committed, experienced and dedicated employees. We work closely with municipalities, regions, the police, volunteers and civil society, and build bridges to the established system, so that even those who have the least have access to care, health and dignity.

We know what we are doing – and we know what works. We take responsibility for making a difference.

Contact Point

24/7 sanctuary and lifeline

An open, safe drop-in center staffed 24/7. Here, men and women experiencing homelessness, addiction, and severe social vulnerability can find respite, care, and emergency assistance.

H17

Consumption room in Kødbyen

H17 is the world’s largest drug consumption room. H17 has a total of 43 spaces – 10 for injection and 33 for smoking – and between 800 and 1,300 drug consumptions take place per day.

Social Exemption Card

Vulnerable people in employment

The social exemption card gives men and women experiencing homelessness, psychological vulnerability, substance abuse, or other social disadvantages the opportunity to participate in a working community on their own terms.

Skyen

Drug Consumption Room at Mændenes Hjem

Skyen is located at Mændenes Hjem and opened in 2013 as the first healthcare-based drug consumption room in Vesterbro. It has 17 spaces, divided into 9 for injection and 8 for smoking.

Health Room

Health and support at street level

An open health service for the vulnerable, where one can receive urgent help and long-term support without an appointment.

Café Klare

Night café and sanctuary for women

Staffed night café exclusively for women. Here, one can get a hot meal, take a shower, find peace, and sleep safely.

Café Dugnad

Café and sanctuary

A low-threshold social offer where you can get daily community and low-practical support. We offer free food, hot drinks and access to drug use tools.

Clothing Project

Clothing for the homeless

The Clothing Project ensures that society’s most vulnerable have access to clean, intact, and weather-appropriate clothing.

Project Blisko

Help for foreign citizens

Project Blisko offers advice, case processing, and guidance regarding repatriation for foreign citizens, primarily with an Eastern European background, as well as social and health professional support for treatment and substance abuse.

Residential Services

Support, security, and stability in everyday life

We offer three 24-hour staffed residential services for men and women with substance abuse and complex social, psychological, and physical challenges (§107, §108, and §110).

Why do our efforts work?

Our harm reduction efforts alleviate the consequences of the harsh life on the streets. We reduce the damage caused by drug addiction, abuse, sex work, lack of access to healthcare, and the traumas and neglect that are daily companions in the lives of our users.
It is cost-effective and has a large socio-economic benefit – for example, by preventing life-threatening infections, overdoses, brain damage and rehabilitation, and by reducing unnecessary hospitalizations.
Our work supports long-term social integration: When health and safety are strengthened, the opportunity for participation in social life increases – job, housing, network.
Our efforts relieve physical and emotional pain and improve the lives of vulnerable men and women. We reduce insecurity in the local environment, and the efforts are delivered in the middle of Vesterbro between shops, kindergartens and homes for thousands of people whose lives are not lived on the dark side of society.