Rama: 200 lodge-containing households affected by earthquake

Tirana City Hall has ordered 200 container-shaped houses for the promotional accommodation of these families in these cold days, mainly in rural areas, where families have refused to leave the land.

One of the first beneficiaries is the family of Bedri Stairway in Farka, Tirana, who collapsed from the 26 November earthquake. The six members of this family have been sheltered in a house-contensary -- a gift from philanthropist Lazim Dastan's family, which offers all conditions to spend the winter until later assembly of new residences by the Albanian government. They were visited today by Prime Minister Edi Rama and Mayor Erion Veliaj, who assured him that thanks to this project of the Albanian government, new homes will be a model.

This is just a pro-visual solution. The prime minister left us a message where there are little children whose umbrella is not comfortable, we ordered containers. We have 200 families that actually have small children who don't have a B plan at a relative, and we started by ordering the prime minister and cleaning up these new neighborhoods. You who are on your land and who are already in a urbanised neighborhood, we will bring the house here, as the Prime Minister ordered. While for others we will group, for example, in Baldushk where you told me you had your brother there we found a land and 50 families better bring to a place of”, Veliaj said.

As he guaranteed the quality of new homes, Prime Minister Edi Rama stressed that their assembly will begin early in spring. This is not a prefabrick or brick matter. This is a matter of having better, stronger anti - seismic homes. What I'm about to get up is all those parameters, they're very comfortable, I use America, Germany, other countries. We're going very fast on business and I believe that early in spring, we're going to start putting together new houses”, he said.

Rama underlined that the new neighbourhoods that will be created will meet all conditions for families who will be located there and create a new perspective. There will be a lot more good conditions and they will be closer together, but not just for each other, but closer to services, closer to the nursery, garden, school, health center. While the land is left to its owner, it is agricultural land, small farm, livestock, and so on. To get the job owner to work and return home, not to go the whole house”, Rama stressed. /tch