Over the next two weeks, five Dutch aid organizations will guide one hundred and forty host families in the reception of Ukrainian refugees. This concerns a trial in the Eindhoven and Amsterdam regions, de Volkskrant reported on Monday.
The aid organizations, including the Salvation Army and the Red Cross, hope to be able to intervene in time when things threaten to go wrong, among other things by making home visits.
“We not only check whether people are suitable for childcare, but also whether childcare fits into their lives. People sometimes think that they can handle having their own children in the bedroom for a few months,” explains Ineke van Buren, program manager at the Salvation Army from in the Volkskrant†
According to the cabinet, the trial in Eindhoven and the surrounding area should form the basis for a ‘large-scale roll-out’ of the reception of Ukrainians in people’s homes. State Secretary Eric van der Burg (VVD) of Asylum and Migration speaks of ‘an important step towards sustainable private reception of refugees from Ukraine’.
Identify bottlenecks
An important part of the supervision is the home visits that specially trained Salvation Army volunteers will make to all one hundred and forty host families. In this way they hope to clarify where possible bottlenecks are in the reception, both for the refugees and for the host families.
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