Photos: CARE and partners in Poland welcome Ukrainian refugees

Ukrainian refugee Marina embraces her daughter, Arina, moments after passing through border control into Poland, near the town of Hrebrenne. All photos: Laura Noel/CARE

By Laura Noel and CARE Staff April 15, 2022

More than 4.7 million people have fled Ukraine due to the war. CARE and its partners are responding with much-needed cash assistance, food, and shelter.

Ukrainian refugees, including Valeria and her son Misha, cross the border into Poland near the town of Hrebenne. In the border zone between Ukraine and Poland, refugees that cross on buses must pass through a checkpoint with their luggage.

Ukrainian Tatiana Medzatova waits at the Medyka, Poland border crossing point, for her two children, one adult and one teenager, to arrive from Ukraine. Przemysl is a crossing point set up for refugees crossing on foot. Tatiana had just received a call that her family was only an hour away.

Ukrainian refugee Marina shares a moment with her son, Timur, moments after passing through border control into Poland near the town of Hrebenne. Mother and son were fleeing Pactava in Ukraine. CARE is working with our partners Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) at the border and elsewhere to provide food, water, clothing and other necessities to refugees.

CARE partner PAH provides food, water, clothing and other forms of assistance, at the Ukrainian-Polish border at Hrebrenne. PAH volunteers assist Natalia Kzakova and her daughter, Sofia, who fled Mariupol. The Kzakova family paused to rest and eat for a few moments before leaving the border zone for Poland, on Monday, April 11, 2022. Little Sofia said, "Our home was destroyed."

Tetiana Feolorrenko and her children, Alina and Karina, wait in the canteen at PCPM's tent facility at the Warsaw East train station on Wed., April 14, after fleeing Ukraine. Tetiana was struggling to get train tickets out of Warsaw, because in the confusion at the border, her passport was not stamped. Here, she and her children could rest, eat, and recharge phones while volunteers worked to solve the transportation problem. CARE and PCPM are partnering to provide resources and cash assistance to refugees who crossed the border into Poland.

Ukrainian refugee Nadja Deerandriva, and her cat, Benjamin, are temporarily residing at the Ukrainian House in the Polish border town Przemysl after fleeing their country.

Varvara brushes her mother, Svitlana Dovgan's, hair, while her younger siblings pass the time in various ways at the Ukrainian House.

Some of the many drawings by Ukrainian refugee children that were informally displayed at an arts and crafts station in a converted school gym, Hala Sportowa, Lubycza Królewska.

A child's artwork displayed in a converted school gym, Hala Sportowa, Lubycza Królewska. This gym serves as temporary housing for refugees in the Polish border town, Hrebenne.

Cousins Mia Taranenko and Margharita Tsimbaleij play catch with a balloon they found while waiting with other refugees at the Przemysl train station on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. This train station, located in the nearest large town over the Polish border, is a gathering place for many refugees and non-profits who are providing basic supplies and internet/cell phone charging while people wait. Most refugees are in transit to another location.

CARE President and CEO Michelle Nunn (left) and Deepmala Mahla, CARE VP for Humanitarian Affairs, comfort Liudmyla Staston, a Ukrainian teacher, who just received certification in Poland to teach the refugee kids, who have flooded into their neighboring country’s school systems. CARE is partnering with humanitarian group, PCPM. Liudmyla Staston fled Ukraine with her 13-year-old daughter, but also misses the school children she taught back in Ukraine. Photographed on Thursday, April 14, at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.

Ukrainian refugee Marina embraces her daughter, Arina, moments after passing through border control into Poland near the town of Hrebenne. Mother and daughter were fleeing the Sumy region in Northwest Ukraine. CARE is working with our partners Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) at the border and elsewhere to provide food, water, clothing and other necessities to refugees.

All photos: Laura Noel/CARE

Photos: CARE and partners in Poland welcome Ukrainian refugees

More than 4.7 million people have fled Ukraine due to the war. CARE and its partners are responding with much-needed cash assistance, food, and shelter.

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Photos: CARE and partners in Poland welcome Ukrainian refugees

More than 4.7 million people have fled Ukraine due to the war. CARE and its partners are responding with much-needed cash assistance, food, and shelter.

UKRAINE CRISIS

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