They are providing aid for refugees and collecting humanitarian supplies to send to Ukraine. Eve Carter is from the UK and arrived in Hungary to carry out relief work in the city of Zahony.

The teams in Poland are in constant communication with Ukrainian cities and their hospitals.Д®TW volunteers are also travelling from other European countries to assist organizations already at the Ukrainian borders. In each destination city, the Amma Poland teams work with other volunteer organizations and government officials to provide refugees with shelter, supplies, and help with trauma recovery. But then I said that she has to be strong and brave for her children. вЂњShe had no driving licence, so the guards asked me to drive the familyвЂ™s car and take her to the shelter. They were sitting in the car, and her husband was not allowed to leave Ukraine, because men between 18 to 60 years old cannot leave the country,вЂќ said Krol. вЂњI was asked to go to the other side of the border by the border guards, because there was a young woman with two sons, one three and one five. Krol says there are elderly people and women with children who are alone, and they need assistance to carry their possessions after travelling such long distances. The next travel points are in the cities of Warsaw, Lodz, and Krakow, but the needs can be staggering. The Amma Poland camp is about 500 meters from the border checkpoint, and the refugees are given time to rest while volunteers work out options for them. They come, they rest a little bit, and then they immediately start to help the other people. Despite their devastating experience, Krol says he is deeply moved by the strength and resilience of the Indian students. Krol says the first priority is to get Indian students on buses to the Embassy of India in Warsaw, the countryвЂ™s capital. вЂњWhen we got to know about the Indian students in Ukraine heading for the Polish border, we immediately got active.вЂќ When we saw the plight of these people, we immediately decided to extend all possible help,вЂќ said Krol. вЂњThousands of people are coming to Poland from Ukraine, escaping war. An ambulance brought him to the Polish border, and Krol coordinated with the Indian Embassy to get him on a flight back to India. The student suffered gunshot wounds on February 27th, but had reached a condition where he could travel from Kyiv. He was up until 4 am last night on the Ukrainian side to translate for an Indian student who just arrived. Marcin Krol is a volunteer with Amma Poland and has been at the border since just after the Russia-Ukraine conflict started. Das is grateful for the relief camps there. Their state governments arranged buses to get them to the border with Poland.

They returned to the bunker, and two days later on March 2nd, the Indian Embassy told them to leave Kharkiv by 6 pm. Listening only.вЂќДЄfter a week, the students were able to make the 10 km walk to the railway station, but could not get a seat on a train.

At night it was very intense bombing and we are all alone listening in the bunkers. вЂњWe heard the bombing sounds and the firing. вЂњOn February 26th, we all moved to bunkers, and there we spent one week in the bunker with limited food,вЂќ said Das. One of their colleagues was a 21-year-old Indian medical student killed when he left the shelter to get groceries. He and about 40 other Indian students endured intense Russian attacks in the city of Kharkiv. Surya Narayan Das from Odisha arrived yesterday at the Amma Polska (Amma Poland) camp at the border between Ukraine and Poland. About 20,000 Indians were studying at universities in Ukraine at the beginning of the war. The teams aid refugees of all nationalities by providing clothing, shoes, food, blankets, and other basic needs, and they find accommodation for those who do not have shelter.

Bearing harsh winter weather, they stay put to care for thousands of Indian students and other refugees who arrive after travelling long distances to escape the fighting. Since the war started between Russia and Ukraine, Embracing the World volunteers are in Budomierz in south-eastern Poland close to the Ukrainian border.

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