Belgium Brussels municipality assists homeless Roma asylum-seekers

17 Oct 2011 | asylum roma

‘UNHCR’ reports that in order to alleviate the homelessness of the growing numbers of ethnic Roma, who have been making their way to Belgium from south-east Europe, one municipality in the Greater Brussels region has just opened an emergency reception centre for Roma asylum-seekers, including children, who were living rough. The facility in Schaerbeek houses 10 families from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo. They have access to medical care while their children get French lessons so they can enrol at a local school.

Source : UNHCR