The national preparedness week is taking place all over Sweden and for Arjeplog’s municipality, with only 2,644 inhabitants, it is a challenge to get enough people to come and eat.
– We have turned to all businesses and used every forum we can with the call; “Help us – come and eat”. In the event of a crisis, we may have to receive many people from other municipalities and then we must be prepared for that, says Martin Stråmo.
The residents of Arjeplog are served soup, bread, coffee and other drinks.
– We cook the food without access to electricity and with limited water resources.
The aim is also to strengthen Arjeplog residents’ awareness of crisis preparedness and their own responsibility, so the hope is that many people will think about taking with them:
– Crisis preparedness applies to all of us. Here in Arjeplog, we have of course done exercises before, but never served so much food to so many people, says Martin Stråmo.