Vancouver, Xinhua, June 20 (Reporter Huang Xiaonan Ma Xiaocheng) Western Canada's largest city of Vancouver on the 20th commemoration of World Refugee Day on the occasion announced that it will build a refugee resettlement center, in order to more easily help new refugees integrate into Canadian society.
The center is expected to cost $ 24 million Canadian dollars (about 23.51 million U.S. dollars), will be put into use in 2015, can help to rehouse the 2500 refugees. Canada annually receiving about 25 000 refugees.
City of Vancouver will refugee resettlement center land, land tenure for 60 years, rents for one Canadian dollar. The center will provide the new arrivals to provide "one-stop service, which consists of medical clinics, trauma support center, food store the communal kitchen. Center staff from various organizations will provide resettlement of refugees find housing, immigration, and the procedures to apply for social welfare in a variety of services.
British Columbia, Canada Immigration Services Association housing services director Chris Friesen told Xinhua that the center will give the new refugees to bring great convenience. He said this will be the first such type of institutions, it will be many organizations come together, such as government departments, real estate services, medical and trauma treatment organizations. Refugees to arrive will be able to get a more comprehensive service, which will save time and effort to seek needed services everywhere.
June 20 is World Refugee Day. According to United Nations estimates that worldwide there are about 42.5 million refugees and displaced persons from their homes.
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