Refugees are welcome
So many bad news
Messages about newborn babies sleeping outside on the floor in Traiskirchen.
News about dead refugees at our boarders.
Pictures of dead children in the sea.
What to do?
Donate some money? Help with some knowledge about our law and social system? Bring some goods to the refugees?
So many options, but to be true: There is another option I for myself could choose: Give some Refugees a shelter!
Open my door
Yes, you have heard right. I own a house in the Sherwood Forest - or to be precise in Lower Austria and I have some extra room(s) to offer. It's not that perfect and some extra work has to be done. But it is far better than a no future perspective in Traiskirchen without a roof over the head and the winter (or even the autumn) to arrive with very cold nights.
Probably it is not even my house that can be offered. I am a representative of an Austrian club that has even thought to open the door of it's club-house to some refugees.
So, I contacted the Caritas and the Diakonie as the coordinating NGOs in order to start a process of which I might not know, where it ends...
My background
As Robin Hood is my favourite person in history and as I do have a social conscience and as our politicians and our political systems seem to be either not willing or not able to deal with the present problems in the proper way, it's the plight of all of us, to deal with these things as they should be done.
I am the father of two little girls. The older one not 2 years old, the younger one just a few weeks on this world. And in this situation I cannot stand the imagination of some little children fighting the hospitality of our country and it's offer to people who have lost even everything.
My grandfather has lived in times of the Second World War. He has offered shelter to the people of his village during the "invasion" of the Russian Army in 1945. He has never thought about his personal benefit, but he has just cared about the people around him. He was and after his death he still is a great example for me.
Now I do have the opportunity to help other people and I do think, that it is my plight to act as an honorable person.
First Step
On Wednesday, September 2nd I have contacted some relevant addresses - the local church, the Caritas and the Diakonie. The latter ones are the ones who are in the responsibility to offer refugees a professional shelter in my region.
The regional responsible person has been on holidays, so it will take until next week to offer the next information to you.
I am specially interested in the question how "difficult" this process is and how long it takes until people who have nothing will get something....
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Messages about newborn babies sleeping outside on the floor in Traiskirchen.
News about dead refugees at our boarders.
Pictures of dead children in the sea.
What to do?
Donate some money? Help with some knowledge about our law and social system? Bring some goods to the refugees?
So many options, but to be true: There is another option I for myself could choose: Give some Refugees a shelter!
Open my door
Yes, you have heard right. I own a house in the Sherwood Forest - or to be precise in Lower Austria and I have some extra room(s) to offer. It's not that perfect and some extra work has to be done. But it is far better than a no future perspective in Traiskirchen without a roof over the head and the winter (or even the autumn) to arrive with very cold nights.
Probably it is not even my house that can be offered. I am a representative of an Austrian club that has even thought to open the door of it's club-house to some refugees.
So, I contacted the Caritas and the Diakonie as the coordinating NGOs in order to start a process of which I might not know, where it ends...
My background
As Robin Hood is my favourite person in history and as I do have a social conscience and as our politicians and our political systems seem to be either not willing or not able to deal with the present problems in the proper way, it's the plight of all of us, to deal with these things as they should be done.
I am the father of two little girls. The older one not 2 years old, the younger one just a few weeks on this world. And in this situation I cannot stand the imagination of some little children fighting the hospitality of our country and it's offer to people who have lost even everything.
My grandfather has lived in times of the Second World War. He has offered shelter to the people of his village during the "invasion" of the Russian Army in 1945. He has never thought about his personal benefit, but he has just cared about the people around him. He was and after his death he still is a great example for me.
Now I do have the opportunity to help other people and I do think, that it is my plight to act as an honorable person.
First Step
On Wednesday, September 2nd I have contacted some relevant addresses - the local church, the Caritas and the Diakonie. The latter ones are the ones who are in the responsibility to offer refugees a professional shelter in my region.
The regional responsible person has been on holidays, so it will take until next week to offer the next information to you.
I am specially interested in the question how "difficult" this process is and how long it takes until people who have nothing will get something....
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Sherwood - 5. Sep, 09:52
