Czech TV gives airtime to homeless including weather reports and life stories

Over the next several weeks homeless people in the Czech Republic will announce the weather in a number of broadcasts on public broadcaster Czech TV, news website idnes reports. The project is a continuation of Days of Hope which already took place in other European countires including Swizterland and Germany. Besides presenting the weather, people living on the street will also talk, in other programmes, about their lives. The aim of the project, according to a spokewoman, is to break stereotypes about the homeless and those marginlaised in society.