Hope Rescue Centre
Located a short distance from the main railway station ( Gara du Nord), the rescue centre is a place of safety. Not exactly luxury, but it is a place where kids can feel safe. Usually open every day, its like a frontier post - the frontier between the squalor and filth of the street and the civilised world with which most of us are far more familiar.

Caring Staff
The trained staff from City of Hope use it as a base from which they go out on their day and night rounds of the city. There is always a hot meal available, together with washing facilities and a play room.

Mums Time
Every weekend, tired mums with their babies can come and have a chat. Staff are always on hand to provide basic medical care, and to help where further treatment or medicines are required.

Love and Play
It is also a place where the kids learn that they are loved - by the Christian staff that work there, and by Jesus.

Learning Time
Every opportunity is taken to explain the many dangers of the street ( drink, drugs, sexually transmitted disease, child prostitution), and there is always a helping hand for those with worries or problems.

It may be a simple place, but for many who live on the street, the Hope Rescue Centre is as near as it gets to home!

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