Almost all beds for refugees in the Amsterdam region filled

About 1800 of the two thousand beds for Ukrainian refugees in the Amsterdam-Amstelland Security Region have been filled. 1,400 of those beds are in the city of Amsterdam, Renger Visser, income director of the municipality of Amsterdam, said during a visit by Queen Máxima and mayor Femke Halsema to the RAI.

Ukrainian refugees are received, registered and given food and drink in the RAI. From there they are offered a place where they can stay for a longer period of time. Last Wednesday, the first Ukrainians arrived in the RAI. “In the first week a relatively large number of young people who would like to work came and immediately asked: I am an engineer, is there a job?” said Visser in conversation with Halsema and Máxima.

On Sunday, more than a thousand Ukrainians had arrived in the RAI. It is not yet clear how many there are. According to a spokesperson for the location, people arrive 24 hours a day. From Amsterdam Central they are taken to the RAI by buses of the transport company GVB.

Rotterdam

The municipality adds that by no means everyone who arrives in Amsterdam is taken to the RAI. In consultation, some of the people are immediately transported by bus to a reception location in another security region. The number of reception places in the Amsterdam-Amstelland region can also be expanded.

Seven hundred Ukrainian refugees have now been received in Rotterdam and the surrounding area, the Rijnmond Safe Region reports. Twenty locations have been prepared by various municipalities in the region. In total, two thousand refugees must be accommodated in the Rijnmond area via municipalities. Rotterdam takes in a thousand and the surrounding municipalities the other thousand.

Rijnmondveilig calls on private individuals to register as a host family on the Takecarebnb site when they have room to accommodate a maximum of three refugees. Companies are also being asked whether they would be willing to make business space available for larger-scale reception of Ukrainian refugees.