Since the full-scale invasion, the Drohobych community has become a reliable city in the rear, not only supporting soldiers, de-occupied cities and communities, but also hosting many IDPs.
Since the first days of the war, more than 20,000 displaced people have arrived in Drohobych. As of today, the community is home to more than 9,000 IDPs, including 2,000 children.
Providing IDPs with clothing, medicines, and quality education has always been among the priority issues of the local government. Subsequently, the issue of providing IDPs with housing has become an acute one. After all, many IDPs have found employment in Drohobych and intend to live here.
On 27 June, Drohobych Mayor Taras Kuchma told Lviv journalists at a briefing about the process of providing housing for IDPs, what steps the city is taking in this direction, and what housing projects it is implementing.
Supporting and assisting IDPs who lost their homes due to military operations and were forced to leave their hometowns and migrate to safe areas is one of the important vectors in the work of the Drohobych territorial community authorities. This was emphasised by Taras Kuchma in his interview with the media.
These people lost their homes and everything they had in an instant. Many of them have nowhere to go back to because the occupiers destroyed their homes, entire villages and towns. As of today, we have already done a lot. In Stebnyk, we reconstructed a dormitory and equipped 32 apartments for comfortable living for IDPs. In Drohobych, we built a 12-apartment modular-frame house for 60 people. Two more housing projects for IDPs are currently underway. We are doing a lot, but we also need the help of foreign funds and donors. Therefore, we are actively working to attract new investments to speed up these processes,” commented Taras Kuchma.
After the interview, the journalists visited the newly built housing for displaced people in Drohobych and Stebnyk and talked to them.