Imatra is ready for an apartment-based reception center

The Imatra city group has prepared to offer around 90 rental apartments from different parts of the city to people who have fled Ukraine. The city received a survey from the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) about apartments on Monday of this week. Mitra, which manages Imatra's rental apartments, has already presented the apartments to the Finnish Red Cross, which is investigating the establishment of an apartment-based reception center for Imatra.

─ The matter is still at the negotiation stage. If such an apartment-based reception center were to be established for Imatra, it could mean housing around 250 Ukrainians in the city, the reception centre's acting director. manager Lauri Perälä says.

In a month at the earliest

If the negotiations progress to lease agreements and the apartments can be furnished quickly, the first clients of the reception center can arrive in Imatra within about a month.

─ We have a common, clear will to be involved in helping Ukrainians. Of course, this also means something to do for us, because for example the educational services have to organize preparatory education for refugee children by next autumn at the latest, Director of Strategy and Administration Matias Hilden says.

New jobs

An apartment-based reception center means that persons applying for international protection or receiving temporary protection live in their rented homes as families, but receive statutory reception services from the reception centre.

The central operation will also create new jobs for Imatra, as the reception services would require the hiring of approximately 15 employees.

For more information:

Acting director of the apartment-based reception center. director Lauri Perälä, tel. 0456314636