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- Published: 27th January 2023
Ukraine – One Year After The Unthinkable | Your Support In 2022
On February 24th of 2022, conflict erupted in Ukraine. Millions were forced to flee with little more than a suitcase. When the unthinkable happened, you, and thousands of others throughout Ireland and the world, showed your support.
One example is David, the founder of Bronx House in Romania – he offered up rooms to families displaced from Ukraine, taking in a total of 21 children and their parents. To enable more small organisations to continue this essential work, Oxfam has partnered with multiple local partners. Thanks to you, we can ensure that families fleeing the conflict have safety, security and dignity.
Bronx House receives support to ensure it can continue housing, feeding and assisting these families. But it does more than just that. It has created a community, a support network and a place for creativity. Children learn to cook, they practice judo and they create art. It enables them to express their trauma alongside learning coping mechanisms and lifelong skills.
This is how you and other supporters offer hope and recovery. When a person has nowhere to turn – it is kind people like you that support them to keep going. Katerina, shown above with her youngest child, fled Ukraine without any plan. Her only thought was the safety of her children. She is so grateful that Oxfam-supported initiatives were available to provide what she lacked – a safe place for her and her children to sleep.
"We arrived here start of March. After the first week of war. We travelled with my father who is over 60 years old. This is a very good place, very good people. Our children have good friends here. The children they have judo training. They have activities like cooking, painting. They like it very much here. My husband, his parents, my brother are all still in Ukraine. Will they be ok over there or not? I think about it every day. It’s hard to speak about this situation."
