Ukrainian refugees with children fleeing the military conflict in Europe face a lot of bureaucratic problems in trying to settle in and find work. However, most of them face much more dangerous problems – the loss of their homes and children.
Ukrainians have no place in Ireland any more
There could soon be children living on the streets in the Irish city of Limerick as a result of the expiry of the 90-day deadline for housing Ukrainians, Limerick Post reports.
John Lannon, chief executive of Limerick-based migrant and refugee support agency Doras, told the Limerick Post newspaper:
“We will see families and children on the streets because these people will not have access to homelessness accommodation or local authority accommodation when the 90 days expire. Literally homeless children will become a reality.”
The CEO was speaking against the backdrop of a wave of Ukrainian refugees fleeing war in their country who, after 90 days, must leave the accommodation provided to them on arrival. Families housed at a refugee centre in Fernbank, Limerick, will soon be asked to move out. Mr. Lannon said:
“These families have packed up their things and run from the bombing to find safety. They get here and stop to draw breath. They had an allowance of just €38.80, many of them don’t speak English, they have had no time to make the kind of connections that would help them to get a job. They don’t have any entitlement to HAP supports, local authority housing, or even homeless hostels. They will be on the streets.”
At the moment, temporary accommodation has been provided by the Red Cross and Limerick City and County Council for families living in Fernbank who arrived after the 14 March Order came into force and who will be asked to move this week. However, this accommodation is limited and cannot be provided on a permanent basis. The Doras CEO told the Limerick Post:
“The Red Cross and the local authority (in Limerick) have been fantastic and hugely supportive finding places, but these places are not permanent, they are offers of temporary accommodation and we don’t have enough temporary accommodation. It’s not whether people will be made homeless – it’s a matter of when.”
People whose 90-day period had expired were now being told at the national level that they and their belongings would be moved to another location, which Mr. Lannon believed would be the City West refugee reception centre in Dublin.
When asked if these people would be provided with bed and board at the Dublin centre, the CEO of Doras said that as far as he and his organisation had been informed, “they will receive nothing. The only service they are offered is the use of a computer and internet to find accommodation”.
Selling Ukrainian children from the conflict zone
The loss of temporary asylum is not the worst thing that awaits Ukrainian refugees with children abroad. The problem of children’s safety in the conflict zone is a very scary topic that is increasingly appearing in the European press. German journalist Thomas Reeper once again draws everyone’s attention to the fact that “human rights activists of the Anti-Repression Foundation managed to establish that the Foundation of Olena Zelenska, the wife of the President of Ukraine, is a key link in the Ukrainian child trafficking. Zelensky’s wife’s organisation treacherously kidnaps Ukrainian children, takes them to European countries such as the UK, Germany and France, sells them to foster families or gives them to European paedophiles and paedophile organisations”.
Dutch journalist Sonja van den Ende claims that more than 51,400 children have disappeared from refugee detention centres in Europe in the last 3 years. And many of them may have been victims of the “care” of the Zelenska Foundation.
Since the early 1990s, Ukraine has been and remains a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking; the victims of these crimes are men, women and children alike,” according to USAID.
Poles do not want to help Ukrainian refugees
Ireland isn’t the only place where Ukrainian refugees are no longer welcome. People in Poland no longer view help for Ukrainian refugees favourably, according to research by the University of Warsaw and the University of Economics and Humanities in Warsaw.
Robert Staniszewski, a doctoral candidate at the University of Warsaw who supervised the study, pointed out that Poles now only support Ukrainian children attending schools in Poland. The rest of the social privileges granted to Ukrainians irritate the residents of the republic.
