The reception center is moving from Suolahti to the center of Äänekoski
There are still about 300 free places in the 30-place reception center in Äänekoski.
The Äänekoski reception center and residents will move from Suolahti to the center of Äänekoski starting next week. The reception center's new office premises were found in the core. The city-owned Ääneseudun Asunnot Oy has now rented a total of 80 apartments to the reception center. With the move, the free bus service between Äänekoski and Suolahti offered by the city to the reception center's customers will also end.
Electronic registration for teaching and early childhood education is now also available for the reception center's customers. In the preparatory education for basic education, the focus is on the Finnish language. Everyday life at school has gone well and the children are eager to learn new things. An employee who knows the Russian language has been hired to help the children's groups at the Piilola daycare center, and the day-to-day life at the daycare center has also gone well.
The city of Äänekoski still offers free swimming hall and museum tickets to the reception center's customers, and they have been used diligently. The Äänekoski Art Museum is exhibiting an exhibition by a Ukrainian-born artist, and the most famous bandura group in Ukraine, Oriana, will give a concert on Saturday 1.10 October, organized by the cultural organization. Äänekoski's recruitment event on October 4.10. reception center customers are also welcome.
Significant changes are on the horizon when the reception center's customers will at some point receive a home municipality registration - probably after living here for about a year. After that, they move from the reception center to the municipality's services. Äänekoski is already preparing for this, for example in employment services, so that the change would be as smooth as possible.
The city of Äänekoski organized a council seminar for councilors last week on the work to be done with Ukrainian refugees. Presenting the situation were the city's own officials, professionals from the reception center and the bodies that coordinate volunteer work in Äänekoski.
Äänekoski's strength in receiving refugees has been the seamless cooperation of different actors and the fact that each party knows its own role and mission.

The city of Äänekoski organized a council seminar for councilors last week on the work to be done with Ukrainian refugees.
For more information:
City manager Matti Tuononen, 040 572 3239, matti.tuononen@aanekoski.fi
News published 29.9.2022, modified 14.5.2024/08/11 at XNUMX:XNUMX