By
our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online
Dusseldorf (dpa) – Youth hostels in five German states will
temporarily accommodate 3,800 refugees beginning on October 1, the
head of the German Youth Hostel Association said Saturday.
Hostels in North Rhine Westphalia, Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt, Lower
Saxony and Bremen will clear entire houses for the new arrivals and
have recruited additional staff, chief executive Bernd Dohn told dpa.
The gesture is meant to prevent refugees from having to sleep in
tents as the cold winter months approach.
“We have rebooked other guests by mutual agreement and have stopped
accepting reservations,” Dohn said. “Many [of the guests] had
complete understanding.”
Hostels in Bremen and Lower Saxony‘s Zeven, among others, have
already planned to take in refugees.
The refugees will be able to stay in the hostels until the end of
January. Unaccompanied children who arrive at the hostels will be
supervised around the clock and looked after.
There are more than 500 hostels across Germany, according to the
association.
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