Fifteen thousand visitors open day centers for asylum seekers – Elderly News

June 14, 2015, 7:29

Some 15,000 people yesterday visited the national open day of the 38 participating centers for asylum seekers. The organizers Refugees Netherlands and COA (Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers) speak of “a great success that is worth repeating.

Refugees is pleased with the many meetings between refugees and visitors. Dorine Manson, director of Refugee: “It is very good addition to the tragedies that we see daily in the news, also the warmth and commitment of local residents to experience the refugees. We have seen many extraordinary people, and we do it for. “

Always welcome

COA does not close the end of the day doors. COA chairman Gerard Bakker: “A great day with a great turnout! Nice to see that many people have taken the trouble to take a look at a refugee center and the daily business there. If this Open Day is over does not mean that the doors will close. A refugee center not closed institution and interested is always welcome to come and visit. “

Boring

The NIS has on its website what visitor left to say: “It’s more human than I thought,” says example, a visitor to the refugee center in Utrecht (photo)

“But it’s not a place I would want to stay long because so. personally it is not. “The visitor compares the asylum seekers’ center with a hospital. Her daughter finds it “very gray” look. She would not want to live there. “And it’s also boring, because there is nothing to do.”