Help with work, housing, and even leisure: Brovary is developing a comprehensive IDP support program

In order to promptly address the problems faced by internally displaced persons, Brovary is developing its own comprehensive program to support these people. What are the main areas it will cover, and how the city plans to deal with employment, housing, and even leisure activities for IDPs, said Anastasia Tretiak, head of the IDP Council at the executive committee of Brovary City Council, an IDP from Siverskodonetsk, in a commentary to UNN.

Almost 22,000 internally displaced persons are now registered in the Brovary community, of whom more than 15,000 arrived after the full-scale Russian invasion. Two-thirds of the IDPs are from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. There are also people from Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv regions. And the main task is to make them feel like strangers in the city with which they have connected their lives. That is why we created our Council earlier this year with the support of the Brovary City Council. We also conducted a survey among IDPs to identify the main problems that are currently of most concern to them

According to her, the work with IDPs will primarily focus on three main areas.

This is, first and foremost, work. Many IDPs worked at large enterprises in the metallurgical, coal, and chemical industries. There are no such vacancies here, so retraining is needed. We want to negotiate with companies that are ready to hire IDPs and organize appropriate courses for them. Also, many people are ready to start their own business - we need to make it easier for them to access start-up capital. We also need to solve the problem of housing. We are well aware that everyone will not be given a free apartment. But we want to include in the program some benefits, long-term loans, etc. We have elderly IDPs, some of whom are single. This is the category of people who find it most difficult to adapt to new living conditions. We plan to organize meetings and hobby clubs for them, so that people can have live communication

She also notes that the Brovary City Council meets all the needs of internally displaced persons.  

We have excellent interaction and cooperation with the local authorities. They are currently helping us to find premises for hobby clubs and a dance studio. I have a meeting with the mayor, Igor Sapozhko. As far as I know, he has some ideas about housing for IDPs. I think this is a great help and support from the Brovary City Council

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