The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration plans to set up two types of refugee camps in Europe, transient and semi-permanent centers, it was learned here today.
Col. Roger G. Powell, who leaves within the next two weeks to take up his duties in London as director of the refugee camps division of UNRRA’s European regional office, disclosed that transient centers will house displaced persons on their way home for from five to seven days, while administrative details are attended to and transportation is arrange. Semi-permanent camps are planned for devastated areas, towns in Poland, for instance, where it will be necessary to provide shelter and food for those who still remain and for those who are returning, Powell said.
If and when UNRRA goes into Poland, it plans to set up ten transient camps there, he said, capable of housing a constant transient population of 40,000. It is expected that they will be maintained over a period of six months and that the average stay will be five days. For the internally displaced persons, including 350,000 children and United Nations nationals, semi-permanent camps in Poland will be set up, according to the plan. The two Polish governments have been asked to furnish data as to site, number, supplies and specialized needs for these.
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