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One of our members, has a contact in Kyiv, a lady called Julia Sporysh. She has set up an small NGO that works with displaced mothers and children, doing fixed cost items like clothing and hygiene packs, specific medicines that need to be bought outside Ukraine and hand carried in, and food when needed. Julia is coordinating this from a place on in Poland on the Ukraine & Belarussia border. Her husband is in Kyiv, along with a couple of young employees of the firm. One can support them directly, I think.
There is another approach that we in Mapesbury, and perhaps wider, can follow to provide support. What Julia would like to do is to ‘twin’ families, so a household here ‘sponsors’ a refugee family over there, so the support becomes more personal. Be good to do this as a Mapesbury support action – our member suggested to Julia we do this with a Mapesbury group zoom with Julia telling us us what it’s like, what people are feeling, how everyone is being affected and how we can help. Let me know if you would be interested in joining this group zoom idea.
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