Vysočany refugee support center: It will help them with housing, education and health
“We are focusing on a systemic solution to the effects of the crisis, we have a follow-up support center in which UNICEF will participate and co-finance,” Hřib stated on Thursday. The outgoing mayor already announced that the center will provide necessary services to those who have been in Prague for some time. He added that the city will finance the facility from 333 million crowns, which it received from UNICEF to solve the refugee crisis.
The coordinator of the center is Geti Mubeenová from the Organization for Aid to Refugees, who in the past months coordinated aid to non-profit organizations at the Prague Central Station. The device should work in trial mode at first. The center’s staff will help refugees with accommodation, securing a school or social and legal advice. According to Mubeen, the workplace will be open to all refugees, regardless of visa type.
Approximately 100,000 people have come to Prague since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, including more than 30,000 children. KACPU, which helps refugees with the processing of residence permits, health insurance and other tasks, during the period of its operation, according to Hřib’s earlier statement, handled about 113,000 people. Some refugees do not stay in Prague and continue on to other regions or, for example, to Germany. KACPU also no longer offers housing in city apartments and hostels due to the capacity being filled.
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War refugees from Ukraine in the Regional Assistance Center for Helping Ukraine, hl. m of Prague and the Central Bohemian Region. (March 10, 2022)
Author: CNC/Alexandr Malachovský