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1.Number of people that can be successfully integrated
Following the example of Tilos, who welcomed 12 refugee families and has a population of 500 people, if Kozani, that has approximately 40000 people as population welcomes 960 refugee families, they will be successfully integrated. -
2.Accomondation
Some of the refugees can live in refugee camps that will be built in villages nearby Kozani with a lot of space. Some others can be provided with any vacant, abandoned houses, which will be renovated. NGOs can undertake to pay the rent of those houses. -
3.The kind of enterpreneurship that can be developed
As a city, we should create employment opportunities for those refugees. Kozani's climate is ideal for the development of agriculture and there are plenty of valleys and fields outside the city that will probably enable stock-farming. So, it would be a great idea if the refugees that will be integrated in our town worked in businesses that relate to this two domains. -
4.The ways our school can help
In order for the refugees to feel welcomed in our community, our school must take action too. To begin with, there must be created projects refering to the difficulties and obstacles those people have dealed with, so the students will show more sympathy and compassion and want to embrace and support the refugees. As a result, a big amount of students will probably want to take further action by creating programs that aim to the refugee's integration in our city and help them financially. -
5.The potential benefits for local economy
Last but not least, we should not see the refugees as some kind of problem. Instead, we should be thankful for them, because they will support the local economy by shopping, working and founding many kinds of new businesses, when they finally get integrated in our town. In this way, Kozani's income will undoubtedly get increased and our city will become a better place to live.