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On a bitterly cold morning near the Bank of England, an Estonian man sleeps on top of a vent which blows warm air. He is drunk - an all too familiar story.
As Britain's economy dives deeper into recession, going down with it are the jobs of thousands of migrant workers from Poland and other Eastern European nations.
It is hard enough for anyone to find a job in these difficult times, but if you don't speak English, have no address and no money, the only think you have in abundance is despair.
This is where Ewa Sadowska from the Polish charity Barka comes in. Barka has joined forces with British outreach workers to try and find homeless Poles.
They will offer them a free bus home and rehabilitation at a Barka centre in Poland.
"We encourage people to return back to Barka programs for social inclusion in Poland, as they have no recourse to public funds here and no assistance is available for them here in the United Kingdom," Ewa Sadowska said.
The pairing of Polish and UK outreach workers has been a success.
Hundreds of desperate Poles have been encouraged home and gone through the detox program.
But if they insist on staying in the UK there is not much outreach workers like Chris Murray can do.
"I can't do nothing with them. I can't get them into accommodation because they can't claim benefits," he said.
"They can get some medical treatment but it's at a push, so it means that they end up staying in the street because I can't get them in."
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Opublikowane na stronie internetowej ABC 5 stycznia 2008
Foto: With little government support, jobless migrants are being left to fend for themselves on the streets. (ABC TV) | 
