The tent town in Malešice is already standing, it can hold one hundred and fifty refugees
/ PHOTO GALLERY / Prague firefighters have completed the construction of tents in Malešice for Ukrainian refugees, mainly from the main railway station. At the moment, the connection of the tent town to the engineering networks has begun.
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Tent town Malešice for refugees.
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Fire spokesman Martin Kavka told ČTK on Tuesday. It is not yet clear when the first refugees will be completed and the first refugees will be able to move here. He should discuss this in the middle of the municipal crisis staff. The capacity of the town will be 150 seats and will include facilities including a dining tent and showers. Construction began Monday morning.
The tent town in Troja, where there were 147 refugees on Tuesday morning, has been operating in Prague for several weeks. Prague is affected by a large influx of refugees. The KACPU Refugee Assistance Center in Vysočany, which serves Prague and Central Bohemia, has so far handled over 90,000 people.
PHOTO: A town for refugees in Malešice: Firefighters started to set up tents
“All the tents are set up and gradually everything else is involved and finished, and the people who will operate it here are getting to know it,” Kavka said.
The construction of both residential tents and those with facilities will be completed. According to the spokesman, it will not be possible to predict exactly how long the connection of the town to the engineering networks will take and everything will be completed. “There are no fixed dates that everything will be done in so many and so many hours,” he added.
Roma refugees from the main railway station, where non-profit organizations now end their activities, are to find temporary accommodation in the town. The foreign police will continue to operate on the spot. “As a Hlavák initiative, we intend to continue to help incoming refugees, because we are convinced that humanitarian aid on the ground will still be needed. We do not yet know exactly what concrete form our aid will take.
The management of the capital has been preparing “anti-cross” assistance to people in need since the autumn
The town is being built on a plot of land next to the ČP sorting plant between Českobrodská and Sazečská streets and the train tracks. Firefighters began work on the construction site on Monday morning, and workers also felled air raids in part of the complex. As in Troja, there will be dozens of tents for accommodation in Malešice, common areas such as a dining room, showers and sanitary facilities, and a children’s corner.