Lisbon provides support for Ukrainian refugees
For all Ukrainians who need help and those who want help, the municipality of Lisbon has available from now on a telephone line 800 910 111 and the email address sosucrania@cm-lisboa.pt.
Lisbon city hall will open the Monsanto municipal dining hall to support Ukrainians stranded in the city and set up an emergency reception centre for refugees from Ukraine in a pavilion of the Municipal Police.
For all Ukrainians who need help and those who want help, the municipality has available from now on a telephone line 800 910 111 and the email address sosucrania@cm-lisboa.pt, Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas (PSD) said at a joint press conference with Ukraine’s ambassador Inna Ohnivets.
“Lisbon is with Kyiv, with Ukraine, with the Ukrainian people,” said Carlos Moedas, noting that the feeling of solidarity “is so strong”: “With the heart of Lisboners, we want to help in whatever is needed, we cannot have that hesitation.”
The solidarity plan of the city of Lisbon, centralised in the City Council and which includes the 24 Lisbon parish councils, is divided into two phases, the first of which involves “providing immediate support in terms of food, accommodation, clothing, medication and psychosocial support” to Ukrainians stranded in the Portuguese capital, who are estimated to number around 50.
The second phase, implemented in coordination with the Ukrainian embassy in Portugal, provides for the construction of “an emergency reception centre for refugees in a sports pavilion at the headquarters of the Municipal Police of Lisbon”, in the area of Praça de Espanha and that as soon as necessary will be ready within 72 hours.
