Ukraine refugees
Canada: Saskatchewan officials undertake efforts to settle newly-arrived Ukrainian refugees
Regina/IBNS: A total of 230 Ukrainian refugees arrived in Canada's Saskatchewan when a plane carrying them flew direct from Warsaw in Poland and landed at Regina airport on the evening of July 4.
Over the next several days, efforts are being made by the officials to direct all the new arrivals to house, language training, and eventually employment services.
For the last several months, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan has been working on the logistics of providing services to the newly arrived refugees.
All of the people from the flight, for the time being, are being housed in dorm rooms at the University of Regina till their basic needs are met and then they are expected to be placed in towns and cities across the province.
Congress president Elena Krueger said that more than 13 per cent of Saskatchewan’s population is estimated to have Ukrainian ancestry.
Efforts to hire some of the newly arrived refugees are ongoing by Regina’s Ukrainian Canadian Co-op, which was opened in 1937 by Ukrainian immigrants.
Meanwhile, the Regina Open Door Society is planning to offer language training and employment services to these refugees.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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