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Tartu Learns From Lviv

A shelter is only useful if people can get inside. Tartu is looking to Lviv for lessons in keeping public services available under pressure.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 10

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Staff at the Southern Rescue Center opened the door of a public shelter at Tartu Vocational College in June. They did it remotely. Tartu said similar systems were already in use at several Ukrainian shelters.

On November 9, Tartu City Government announced that Estonia’s second-largest city had joined Unbroken Cities, a net…

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