12:42, 29 January 2008

Chechen woman whose children were lost in the mountains will get an apartment in Poland

The authorities of the Polish city of Olsztyn have agreed to provide social habitation to the Dzhabrailov family from Chechnya, which has lost their three daughters in the mountains, when attempting to illegally cross the Ukrainian-Polish border.

Kamisa, her husband Khampashi and their only survived two-year-old son will soon lodge into a 30-square-meter apartment in the territory of Olsztyn, the Polish Radio "Zachod" reports.

A Polish family helped Kamisa to file an application on granting social habitation; the family, having learnt about the tragedy of the Dzhabrailovs, accepted the family for residence to the centre of psychological rehabilitation in Stefanovice settlement near Olsztyn. Here, the Chechens were helped to get adapted to the life in the country that is completely new to them.

Meanwhile, Kamisa and her husband are impatiently waiting for granting them the refugee status, which was promised to them personally by the wife of the President of Poland. Without such status they cannot legally get jobs. However, so far the decision on the issue is postponed.