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Please DONATE generously to help us feed Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Sewa Canada International Aid Inc , a registered charity in Canada, is partnering with ISKCON Poland’s Viva Kultura, a registered charitable foundation in Poland.
This campaign aims to help refugees from Ukraine affected by the armed conflict in Ukraine and who want to find shelter in Poland. The situation is very distressing and frightening for everyone. It is an emergency that calls for compassion and action. There is a need for financial support as more and more people arrive in Poland every day to seek shelter.
The main goals are:
- providing a temporary residence,
- initial financial assistance
- help in finding a job,
- financial support that will allow individuals to continue their journey to their final destination.
All donations are tax-deductible in Canada. Tax receipts will be issued automatically.
100% of your generous donations will are transferred to the work on the ground in Poland to support the work of our partner organization.
Donations may also be made via cheque payable to “Sewa Canada International” and mailed to the address below. Please mention “Ukrainian Refugee Relief Program in Poland”
Address: P.O. Box 76621, 1661 Denison Street
Markham – ON, L3R 0N5
For more information CONTACT US
Watch this page for updates and progress of the work on the ground.
Update #3 – 16th April 2022
- Family from Dnipro, after three weeks with us, we found them a place in Germany.
- A mother with two sons, after a few days in our temporary home, we found them a place in Switzerland.
- The family from Mariupol, after two weeks with us, we found a place for them in Austria.
- Two families from Zaporizhia, after a few days in our home, now on their way to Austria.
- The family from Krematorsk, after twelve days in our temporary home, we found a place for them in Japan.
- Two women from Mikołajewo, after a short stay, rest and regeneration, we sent them to Denmark.
Update #2 – 25th March 2022
In the previous week, our volunteers on the ground received families who were able to flee the siege and destruction of Mariupol, via the humanitarian corridor. It took them 3 days to reach Poland. We served them their first hot safe meals and eating in peace. This included a 83 year old person. Some families after being well rested, refreshed and fed for a few days at homes rented and supported by our volunteers left for Czech Republic, where longer stays were arranged by our partner organization in Poland, Viva Kultura. For some families our volunteers have had to facilitate and arrange for multiple hospital visits in Poland, to address health issues. Some of these families has since left for Bavaria in Germany, this week. Our volunteers having been working non-stop with international contacts all over Europe to make these longer stays possible. In addition to all of the above work, our volunteers have been providing hot meals to refugees in downtown Warsaw, four times a week. For more pictures and video, CLICK HERE
Update #1 – 17th March 2022
Over the last 2 weeks, volunteers of our partners Viva Kultura has been welcoming hundreds of families who fled Ukraine to Poland. These families are from some of the most impacted areas like Dnipro, Kharkiv, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kiev and a few from Lviv. These families arrived hungry, traumatised, after often risk filled long journeys from the Eastern part of Ukraine. Volunteers first arranged for hot meals (in many cases the first in many days for them) and found them places in Poland to rest, including rented temporary accommodation in Poland. Many decided to transit to other places in Europe, while others stayed on in Poland. In the last 2 weeks, our volunteers have arranged transit for some of these families to Dresden, refugee centre in Neuruppin (Germany), Spain, and resettlement with families they arranged for in Ireland, Sweden and some families are scheduled to leave for Cyprus by end of March. Children of families remaining in Poland have started attending school in Poland. Longer-term rent was paid by our partner organization for these families in these cases. In some case, our volunteers also arranged for psychological counselling. To view pictures of the work by Viva Kultura on the ground and follow the work, CLICK HERE.
