In nature Heumensoord in Nijmegen will be a temporary emergency shelter for 3,000 asylum seekers. The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) wants the area within a few days turn it into the largest shelter in the Netherlands. The municipality plans Wednesday to light at a press conference.
A camp of this size being built there each year to house the military participants in the marches. The refugees will soon arrive at the camp. When that is exactly, is not yet known, but not within a few days.
,, We are very touched by the flow of asylum seekers, “said Mayor Hubert Bruls of Nijmegen during the press conference. ,, It hits us in the heart, but we think with our heads. We stabbing our hand . “
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Bruls stressed that these are temporary emergency shelter but also speaks well about shelter for the coming months. Director Gerard Bakker of the COA ,, speaks of a sober but humane method of care also for the longer term. ”
Defense will assist in accommodating the thousands of people, but the COA will organize security for the camp itself.
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It’s not the first time that will be a temporary emergency shelter for asylum seekers at Heumensoord. In 1990, stayed some 300 asylum seekers. They were immediately after the marches shelter in Camp Four. Eight years later, in 1998, was also established a makeshift camp. At the time, at Heumensoord housing arranged for nearly 1,000 asylum seekers. At the camp site facilities for water and power.
Nijmegen already has an asylum center for 375 people. The municipality starts from October hundred unaccompanied minor refugees from Eritrea in former student housing on the north side of the city. The neighborhood welcomed the arrival of the young refugees.
View on the map below, which is provided in the municipal emergency shelter to refugees.
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