Prague City Hall is looking for new accommodation facilities for refugees from Ukraine. In addition to ordinary flats, they are considering using unrepaired flats, commercial facilities or refugees to temporarily stay in some non-residential premises such as the former post office or school gyms. This follows from a poll among town halls. So far, dozens of flats have been set aside for refugees, and the municipality has also provided assistance. There is an assistance center in the Prague Congress Center (KCP), where refugees can obtain the necessary documents.
Prague 5 has full apartments. “We have therefore decided to prepare additional housing units that can be used in a relatively short time. We are trying to provide shelter, at least temporarily,” said Deputy Mayor Lukáš Herold (ODS). The apartments are currently provided for three months. The management of Prague 5 is considering using non-residential premises that could be easily and quickly prepared for temporary accommodation.
Prague 2 is working on retrofitting and putting other places into operation, and so far it has 60 places set aside for Ukrainians. “To date, we have filled a total of nine seats and by the end of this week we expect to fill another more than 40. We also expect to free up the capacity of apartments in the city district and in this context we are preparing rules regarding their use,” said spokeswoman Andrea Zoulová.
“For the Ukrainians who were driven from their homes by the war, we have a total of 26 municipal flats at our disposal. Eight of them are already occupied and in the short term we will occupy others,” said Jiří Hannich, a spokesman for Prague 6. Some of the flats are now being equipped by the town hall. It is cooperating with the Ukrainian embassy on accommodation and negotiating the increase of seats with the so-called small districts, which belong to the administrative district of Prague 6. “We have agreed on a joint procedure, which will be coordinated with the capital. such a step is necessary,” said Hannich.
For the first wave of the influx of refugees, Prague 8 has twenty flats and the number is able to increase. The City Hall is also ready to take care of seniors, namely in the Gerontology Center and in the SOS Prague 8 day hospital. ” premises of the city district,” said Prague 8 spokesman Martin Šalek.
Councilor of Prague 9 Jiří Janák (ODS / Svobodní) stated that the city district is able to accommodate 200 people. About 30 refugees now live at the Brewery Hotel and another 17 at the Clarion Hotel on Frey Street. The town hall is preparing a former post office building in Poděbradská Street for possible accommodation. According to Janák, more than 20 rooms could be built there.
Prague 10 has set aside dozens of flats for humanitarian purposes. In addition, the town hall is inspecting other vacant flats originally intended for reconstruction. “We will also provide those that can be put into operation quickly,” he added.
City districts are also preparing places in schools for refugee children. For example, Prague 8 offered the municipality temporary jobs in kindergartens and for primary school children in the first to ninth grades. In Prague 10, children of refugees who live in a hotel that is part of the Slavia Stadium in Eden go to school. About 100 people live there, especially women with children.
Warehouses with the necessary things are created in the metropolis. He opened it in the former post office in Prague 9, where he collects mattresses, pans, mugs and other equipment, including appliances, from people. Prague 11 also has a place to store material assistance, and the collection was organized by the staff of the City Hall of Prague 6. In addition, it intends to build centers that will help families get involved in life in the new country. For example, the centers provide a leisure program for children.
Source: CTK
