LEAVE IT TO THE GOVERNMENT ....Justice Minister Helen McEntee is rethinking her own offer of accommodation to a Ukrainian refugee.
It comes as the Red Cross reports that more than half of the accommodation pledges made for Ukrainian refugees in Ireland have fallen through.
DID LEO TAKE IN HIS LODGER OR IS HE STILL BUSY DOING COVID SHOTS OR WAS THAT MORE BOLLOXOLOGY .
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/justice-minister-helen-mcentee-says-shes-now-rethinking-offering-ukrainian-refugee-a-room-in-her-home-41574198.html
When you agreed to accept refugees:
“A nice, beautiful, intelligent Ukrainian woman, please!”
Andy de Schipper from Zelzate (East Flanders) – originally from the Netherlands - set up a Facebook page to help people from Ukraine. There have been many genuine offers of support, but Andy has been shocked by some of the requests. He’s received an awful lot of private messages from single me offering to provide accommodation to “beautiful, intelligent and neat Ukrainian women”.
Colin Clapson
Mon 07 Mar 14:23
“It’s lecherousness without limits that gets people to think our initiative can be used as a dating agency” he says.
The minute Russia invaded Ukraine Andy launched efforts to help. He drove to the Polish-Ukrainian border to help refugees and set up the Facebook page Steun Oekraïne (Support Ukraine). The page now has 3,000 members and many genuine offers to accommodate Ukrainian refugees.
Unfortunately, there are also people with bad intentions. “I’ve received quite a few private messages from single men eager to house a Ukrainian woman. I’m not up for that!”
Some of the messages made Andy shudder. He knows an asylum centre in the Netherlands where women are enticed outside. “Men knock on the window and gesture for the women to come out. I’ve heard talk of people-trafficking. This won’t happen here” Andy says.
He has also taken to social media to make his abhorrence clear with regard to anybody with exterior motives offering accommodation.
Luckily, Steun Oekraïne has already found 200 people willing to provide proper accommodation, no strings attached.
“We work with voluntary social media managers, call centres, doctors and lawyers. We use our gut feeling when we screen people by phone. If our operation gets bigger, that will be more difficult. We won’t be sending any single women to single men!”
Instead, you get offered this lady
