In a vacant holiday home in Leutingewolde there will be a reception location for 12 Ukrainian refugees on 1 October. It concerns two families who will continue to live there for at least two years, with a possible extension of up to three years.
The owners of the holiday home have reported themselves to the municipality of Noordenveld to help with the daycare of Ukrainians. Noordenveld has to take care of five hundred refugees from the Eastern European country and called on residents last year to come up with places.
Residents of Leutingewolde have no problems with the shelter, says chairman Albert Buring of the neighborhood board. “I don’t have that idea. The owner of the building also lives in the neighborhood and has kept us well informed of what will come.”
According to Buring, the municipality did not make much of itself prior to the decision. “I at least expected a letter in the local newspaper,” he says. The neighborhood was informed by the municipality today with a letter of the arrival of the 12 new neighbors
The holiday home in Leutingewolde will be fifth in Noordenveld where Ukrainians are taken care of, in addition to three locations in Roden and one in Norg. In total there are now around two hundred Ukrainians at the municipal reception places.