Ukrainian Refugees arrive in Saskatchewan. Image credit: Twitter handle of Merry Widow
Regina/CMEDIA: 230 Ukrainian refugees arrived in Saskatchewan, Canada when a plane carrying them flew direct from Warsaw, Poland, and landed at Regina airport on Monday evening.
Over the next several days, efforts would be made to direct all the new arrivals to housing, language training, and 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 when they are expected to be placed in towns and cities across the province.
Congress president Elena Krueger noted that more than 13 percent 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 people.
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