Urgent support for traders and Vietnamese workers in shopping centre blaze in Poland
VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to Poland Ha Hoang Hai recently held a working session with representatives of associations and communities to listen to their wishes and suggestions to support Vietnamese traders and workers affected by a recent fire at a shopping centre in Warsaw which had hundreds of Vietnamese stalls.
The meeting saw representatives of small Vietnamese businesses and workers from the trade centre express their desire to receive spiritual encouragement from the Vietnamese community in Poland, as well as other countries in the region in the face of difficulties and losses caused by the fire.
Following huge material losses, a number of traders and workers expressed a keen desire to receive financial support in a hope that that the Vietnamese Embassy in Poland and Polish authorities will assist in re-issuing documents lost in the blaze.
Furthermore, they also requested that local authorities quickly find the cause of the fire to start the insurance and compensation process as soon as possible.
The meeting saw several major Vietnamese businesses in Poland pledge to take support measures, including accepting workers who lost their jobs after the fire, as well as helping damaged traders transform their business models.
Vietnamese associations based in Poland have moved to establish a community support committee to co-ordinate support and repair damage while mobiliszing the Vietnamese communities in Poland and other countries in the region to donate funds and provide spiritual encouragement to damage suffers in the fire.
According to Ambassador Hai, there were about 400 Vietnamese small traders based at the site with about 600 stalls. In addition, there had been hundreds of Vietnamese workers operating at the stalls.
The diplomat also highly appreciated the activities of Vietnamese associations which initially quickly called for solidarity and unity among the community, while gradually implementing support measures.
Moving forward, the Vietnamese Embassy in Poland is set to open an additional reception every week to receive and process consular documents for those who lost their personal papers in the fire, Ambassador Hai said.
He will also have more working meetings with Warsaw authorities as part of efforts to discuss measures to help the issuance of papers, provide financial support, find jobs, as well as determine the cause of the fire.
Getting information about the blaze, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang, head of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs, sent a letter of condolence on May 13 to Vietnamese nationals and Vietnamese associations in Poland.
