Moncton Ukrainian Club to offer temporary refugee housing in former church – New Brunswick
The Ukrainian Membership of Moncton is renovating the basement of a former church to present momentary housing to Ukrainian newcomers.
Natalia Haidash, on the chief committee, stated “there shall be seven rooms downstairs, with two full bogs, and a terrific big neighborhood kitchen. We are able to place as much as 30 individuals on the identical time there.”
Presently they’re utilizing the basement on the web site of the previous St. Andrew’s Presbytarian church in downtown Moncton to type by means of donations for newcomers.
They started working as a drop-off web site on Tuesday, after native entrepreneur Roméo Goguen provided them the house rent-free.
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Haidash stated they had been instantly overwhelmed by donations of housewares, clothes and kids’s toys.
“We began truly asking newcomers to please come get these items as a result of we don’t have house,” she stated.
The Ukrainian Membership has a second warehouse for storage already, whereas sustaining their drop-off web site on the YMCA within the North Finish.
“It’s two completely different tasks,” Haidash stated. The YMCA drop-off is for donations to go to Ukraine, whereas the brand new drop-off web site is for donations for newcomers to Moncton.
Volunteers like Tania Lasaga-Mallaley had their work lower out for them because the donations stored piling up on Saturday morning.
“It’s actually nice, you get to satisfy lots of people right here and share tales, and perceive their tales, and welcome them to Canada. It’s superior,” she stated.
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Donors like Moncton’s Christian Arseneault got here to unload their trunks.
“One of the simplest ways we thought we may assist out was cleansing our home, what the youngsters weren’t utilizing and giving it to another children that would use it,” he stated.
Haidash stated newcomers are coming each day to select up donations, and the best wants presently are for clothes hangers, cabinets, and something that might be used to retailer and arrange donations.
She encourages these considering donating objects or volunteering their time to seek the advice of the Ukrainian Membership’s Fb web page or contact them straight.
