Prague’s city districts are preparing accommodation for people fleeing Ukraine before the war. Today, Prague 2, 4, 6 or 10 approved the provision of assistance. Representatives of Prague 3 stated that the city district had already accommodated the first Ukrainian mothers with children. City Hall also approved financial donations and other measures to support refugees.
The reservation of accommodation capacities for refugees was approved today by the Prague 10 and Prague 6 councils. The mayor of Prague 10, Renata Chmelová (Vlasta), stated at the meeting that the town hall is also coordinating other places where people from Ukraine are staying. According to Chmelová, people from the tenth district can send offers of help to the newly established e-mail address ukrajina@praha10.cz. The city district has also set aside a reserve from the budget to finance humanitarian aid.
The City Hall of Prague 10 will set up a special commission for humanitarian aid to Ukraine and will employ a Ukrainian-speaking coordinator. Today, the representatives of Prague 6 also approved accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, and will also provide capacities for their children in basic art schools. They also terminated the partnership agreement with one of the districts of Russia’s St. Petersburg and increased the reserve for crisis situations.
The Deputy Mayor of Prague 3, Margita Brychtová (Pirates), stated that two mothers with children had already arrived in the dormitory of the city district, whose men had enlisted in the Ukrainian army. The town hall still accommodates other refugees today, it has 40 beds available so far. According to the deputy mayor, meetings with kindergartens will also take place this week.
Assistance to refugees was also approved today by the Council of Prague 2, which approved a donation to support Ukraine in the amount of one million crowns and immediate assistance in the form of allocation of accommodation and school capacities and provision of social, health and psychological care. City Hall has also set up a special account to help Ukraine as part of its Two-Heart Foundation.
According to Jiří Bigas, a spokesman for the City Hall, at the request of the director of the Institute for Research on Totalitarian Regimes Zdeněk Hazdra, the management of Prague 4 approved the reservation of accommodation facilities for war refugees, specifically families of employees of archival organizations in Ukraine.
“These are historians and archivists who helped Czech historians find documents about Czechs imprisoned in one of the numerous Soviet gulags,” said the deputy mayor Michal Hroza (TOP 09). Prague 4 will also provide the Ukrainian Evropská Perspektiva organization with non-residential premises in Táborská Street for the operation of a humanitarian center for refugees.
The Prague City Council is also preparing assistance, and it has 2,420 beds ready for refugees. From Tuesday, the city will set up an assistance center for Ukrainian refugees in the central building of the city library on Mariánské náměstí. Among other things, they will be able to get the necessary documents there, the staff of the employment office will be available to them and they will receive basic humanitarian aid. The center will operate for Prague and the Central Bohemian Region. Refugees will also have free public transport. Children’s and youth homes or schools and municipal companies are also involved in the assistance.
Source: CTK
