Volunteers from Team4Ukraine have completed their first outing with the help of Ukraine this year. This time it was aimed at helping children and the elderly, many of whom had to leave the places where they used to live as internal refugees.
The road led to the Černovická region to an old house and a children's home. Originally, another children's facility was planned, but it did not manage to register in time to receive humanitarian aid. Ukraine tries to minimize the possibility of misuse of humanitarian aid, so each of its recipients must register and be prepared to check whether they have actually received what is declared as humanitarian aid at the border.
"Two cars were driving, one full of things for the Mahala children's home, where there are about fifty children, practically all of them with mental disabilities and the vast majority of them resettled from the fighting area," described volunteer Jakub "Dráp", for whom it was the sixth trip since the outbreak of full-scale Russian aggression. "We brought diapers, because most of the children between the ages of eight and twenty are sleepers, as well as clothes and hygiene supplies," added a Czech volunteer from Team4Ukraine.
"The second car was full of things for a geriatric boarding house right in Černivci, where there are about one hundred and sixty pensioners, a large part of them from Donbas. We brought them diapers, food and some clothes. The cook and I then went shopping on the spot and bought whatever they wanted with the donated money. Which were, for example, bananas and burritos. So for dinner instead of dry rice they could have something like risotto and also some vitamins," Jakub "Dráp" described the realities of this and other similar facilities in Ukraine. Volunteer Aranka Suchardová added to his description: "One of the employees told me that it was hard work. They moved people from the war zone to them, now with a similar number of personnel they have much more work than before the war. Nevertheless, she ended the conversation by saying how well they are doing, because they are not being bombarded yet." Ondřej Černý also adds his experience: "In the orphanage, you could see that they were coping well and they were really grateful for the help. Boys who were not allowed to be born healthy were hanging around. They were happy, pulling our hands and trying to knock some of the chocolate out of us. We asked the elderly what they needed. The cook told me that she is not starving, but the food is monotonous and consists mainly of buckwheat, potatoes and rice. And so we went shopping with her."
The total value of aid imported during this trip reached one hundred and twenty thousand crowns. The value of aid provided through Team4Ukraine since the beginning of the war already exceeded fifty million crowns during the last year.
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