Pockets of help....

Today has been both a really good and yet totally exhausting day.

There's a lot of good being done, but also  some dislocation between different organisations giving help here, each protecting their organisation and their way of working. 

Maybe that's the reality here. All of the organisations have their piece of cake, or supplies, wanting to ensure it's best used. But not communicating to ensure best outcomes. But what do we know?

In the meantime we gave out fruit again today. We're getting better at this, taking the fruit directly into the rooms in the refugee centre. But you can't begin to imagine how challenging these rooms are. 

Today we also had contact with a generous American donor who will also make a difference here.

We have also been kindly invited to help at a summer camp for children in the Carpathian mountains to teach English.

We also met a professor of internal medicine, highly respected, who works tirelessly to help the situation in Ukraine, as well as obtaining medical aid as well as attending international conferences to highlight the situation here. 

At the same time, she was able to put us in touch with a fruit wholesaler and to arrange deliveries on our behalf to the refugee centre.

We met others today who make a difference here. Our translators and fruit transporter, L, the director of the refugee centre, M, and all others that help here. And the people I forget to mention. All these connections.

At the centre of it though, are the refugees...this is really their story.