Refugees sheltering in factory get modular homes from former New York governor
A former New York governor is working with a Hungarian company to provide modular homes for internally displaced refugees in Ukraine.
The first shipment of about 20 foldable units arrived on April 3 in Solomonovo in Zakarpattia Oblast, a village just across Ukraine’s border with Hungary and Slovakia.
The houses were set up near a factory that has served as a temporary shelter for more than 100 refugees, many of them women and children, former New York Gov. George Pataki told CNN.
Pataki’s foundation, the George E. Pataki Leadership and Learning Center, paid Hungary-based company Continest to build, ship and set up the units which are designed to be easy to move and deploy.
“We don’t have the resources to provide the quite literally hundreds of thousands that are needed across Ukraine, but we’re gonna do everything we can to provide as many as we can,” Pataki said. “We’re providing the first step. We just hope that this serves as a model.”
“In the factory, people are safe – they have heat, they have running water, but they don’t have any privacy,” said Vidor Kis-Márton, CEO of Continest. “This is what we can offer them.” He said another ten units from Continest will continue on to the town of Bucha.
