Sikh Couple Helps Refugees Leaving Ukraine, Send Medicines To Kyiv Hospitals From Poland Border
It takes a special kind of bravery to reach out, help strangers in a war zone, risking your own life and for nothing in return. These are the kind of stories that give hope, and especially to war-torn Ukraine, at a time when it's fighting against Russia.
Transporting refugees, supplies
One such story is of a young Indian-origin couple from Warsaw, Poland. The Sikh couple has been helping flee refugees at Poland-Ukraine border. Kanwar Singh and his wife Jass have transported several groups of people, mostly women and children, to airports and train stations.
Additionally, Singh and his wife have also been supplying medical aid that is straight away headed from the border to hospitals in Kyiv.?The couple has chosen to volunteer for these aid programmes that are organised by Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) organisation.
Drive organised by a Polish NGO
As per their website, PAH is a Warsaw-based international non-governmental organization which for more than 20 years has been providing assistance to civilians suffering as a result of the armed conflicts, humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters in more than 40 countries worldwide.
Back and fro at Poland-Ukraine border
Explaining how they are both doing it, Singh took to his Instagram and shared screenshots of what their day looks like. In one of the stories posted, he wrote, "So we drive to the border crossings from Warsaw taking supplies, and bring back people that have just crossed over so they can continue their journey West."
"Back at the crossing in Zosin where there is a constant stream of people coming in.. Most are women and children hence the request for nappies," he wrote on the same thread of stories from his Instagram handle 'kanwar678'.?
In one of the previous stories posted by him, he wrote, "At the moment we just purchasing off the counter meds requested by doctors over the border in Ukraine", sharing a picture of bundles of medicines and sanitary napkins.
2 million refugees flee Ukraine
The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine has reached 2 million, the head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said on Tuesday.
It represents the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. Grandi added that a second wave of refugees from Ukraine is likely to be more vulnerable than the first wave.
"If the war continues we will start seeing people that have no resources and no connections," he said at a press conference in Oslo.
"That will be a more complex situation to manage for European countries going forward," adding that "even more solidarity" will be needed in Europe and beyond.
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