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MaisonRouge makes vacant offices in Ghent temporarily available to students
MaisonRouge|
3 June 2020

Since the lockdown came into effect and the events sector came to a standstill, the offices of MaisonRouge have been quiet and empty. We recently came across an article in which the Ghent Student Council is looking for suitable block locations for students, or quiet rooms to take an online exam. The article states that 9.4% certainly does not have a quiet space for an online exam and that 12% does not have a quiet block space. Due to the closure of locations such as the library and the Therminal (block location of the Ugent), the option of optimally preparing for exams is no longer possible for many students. We had no doubts and registered our office in Ghent as a block location. An additional advantage was that the office was already fully prepared as a physical distancing proof workplace for a possible restart in the future. For example, we have established a one-way walking direction and the desks have been rearranged to guarantee distance. In addition, disinfectant gel is available at various places and anyone who wants to can get a mouth mask from us. There are also sufficient windows to ventilate the room and a maximum number of people is allowed in the room to guarantee the mutual distance. We work with a reservation system to make sure everything runs smoothly and also ask you to fill in an attendance list in case there is contamination and the contact tracers need to know who was present. Of course we hope not to need this and assume that those who do not feel healthy would prefer to stay at home. We also give confidence to the people who are there, because of course someone from MaisonRouge cannot always be present. That is going very well at the moment and we are happy that we can support the Ghent students a bit in this way.

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