Rotary Club Szczecin dla Ukrainy - TIMELINE
14.04.2022
Timeline
- April 14
We had another 3 refugees. Marek Bury took them into his apartment and took care of a mother, grandmother and granddaughter. It is the family of his friend from Kramatorsk. We already have 109 refugees.
We are slowly starting to make "our" refugees independent. As part of this action, we rented an apartment in Gorzów for a family of four (women plus a child). Luby is finishing the renovation of this apartment, and Bogdan Borowczyk has got a job for 2 women. Of course, we will help them, but this care will be less and less expensive for us.
As part of the above action, thanks to Roman Łakomiak, we are renting another apartment in Gorzów on very good terms. It is a three-room apartment. We want to move there 7 refugees from Dziwnów - four from an orphanage with a nanny and a grandmother with a disabled grandson. The apartment must first be renovated and then equipped. It is on Bogdan's head with the help of Marek Wróblewski - equipment from IKEA.
Marek Wróblewski kept his word as he promised. We are getting closer to co-financing our activities with IKEA.
Włodek Dominiczak is preparing a humanitarian delivery to Lviv. Delivery under the patronage of our club, and Włodek will personally take care of it. The car is ready - see attached photos.
Włodek is also preparing for the concert "Ukrainians to Ukrainians". The concert will be held on Sunday, May 1 at 17.00 in Pleciuga. Of course we are all invited together with our families. It only needs to be confirmed with Włodek until April 20.
Yesterday, Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Luby took a group of dentists to Dziwnów. A charity action by dentists led by Cezary Turostowski from the Rotary Club Szczecin International. They did a dental check-up. Five children had teeth for extraction, and 2 adults were for treatment.
A similar action was carried out by our friend, doctor Beata Litwińska. Unfortunately, one of the toddlers is still ill and is under her care.
On the occasion of the dentists' trip, Luby also took our guests from the club meeting on March 23rd, Michał Marks filmmaker and his cameraman to Dziwnów. Michał is to prepare two short films promoting our campaign to help Ukraine.
The point on Struga for giving gifts to refugees from Ukraine has been closed. So we move to the Netto Arena to a similar point and start delivering food and household chemicals from Zbyszek Nagay.
- March 23 – April 01
These were only more important activities, apart from that Luby, Włodek, Grzesiek and Romek had their hands full every day. From morning to evening, and often with very unexpected situations.
We already have almost 100 refugees under our care. We accommodated them in Dziwnów, Stargard, Trzebiatów near Stargard, Dębina and Szczecin. Depending on the location, we look after them ourselves or in cooperation with other Rotary clubs from Szczecin and Stargard.
We sent a group of 20 mothers with children from Ukraine to the Netherlands to Nijmegen. And on this occasion you could find out what Rotary is. Traditionally, this group was piloted from Ukraine to Poland by Rysiek Łuczyn from RC Zamość Ordynacki. Thanks to Radek Skwarski from RC - Wrocław Panorama, we organized them an overnight stay at the Radisson hotel in Wrocław. From Wrocław they were taken by Rotarians from Nijmegen and they reached the crisis center in the Netherlands. And all this, due to the circumstances, handled in emergency mode over the phone. It would not be possible without the Rotarian cooperation and mutual trust.
Last week, we started another project - providing food to the point of receiving and giving gifts to refugees from Ukraine at Struga 5. We decided to supply this point with food after our friends: Ewa Weinert - Rączka and Ola Kocewicz, saw how mothers with children come to this point (refugees from Ukraine, of course) and leave hungry with empty-handed. Last week, Ewa and Ola delivered food to this point for over PLN 1,500 (vegetables, apples, eggs, oil), which was enough for less than 3 hours.
Szczecin was visited by the governor of the district, Wojciech Wrzecionkowski. He visited our pupils in Trzebiatów and Dębina.
- March 25
In both projects, we currently look after over 100 refugees from Ukraine. The film that was made thanks to Włodek Dominiczak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej5gBwegTm0 tells us where they come from.
Włodek, you smile so softly, and you are hard as a rock, you do great things!
- March 18 - 20
Luby Synak from RCS hosted three pupils from the center in Dziwnów over the weekend. At the Pogoń stadium, they cheered on the players together, practiced karting, talked in the evenings and nad dinner by the fire. There was also work on 14 bikes that Luby had previously acquired for the charges of the center in Dębina.
Luby, you've shown that it's easy to help, face to face. Thank you!
Our second project for refugees from Ukraine - LIBERDADE, set by four sailors from RC Stargard and RC Szczecin clubs has launched. Ultimately, the program will cover 45 mothers and minor children. We will provide them assistance in living, maintaining, medical care and access to schools. Children will take part in sailing training, sports, swimming, etc. Within 3 months, depending on the situation in Ukraine, we will help the families covered by the LIBERDADE project to become independent in the EU country of their choice or we will help them return home.
Bogdan Borowczyk from RCS welcomes 7 people at his home as part of our club program to help refugees.
Unfortunately, Renata Węgrzyn's guesthouse was full, the last guests are a father with two children, sent from the border by Włodek Dominiczak. Renato, you deserve a field of flowers!
- March 12
At five in the morning, a coach with 41 refugees from Ukraine, sent by Rysiek Łuczyn from RC Zamość Ordynacki, arrived in Szczecin. Lots of children, including one-year-old and two-year-old toddlers. As usual, the reliable Dominika Dulat from Rotary Szczecin International welcomed them at her hotel, fed them and helped them change to a bus sent by Lions Club Hobro from Denmark. The group successfully arrived in Denmark on March 13. We received another list of 49 refugees from Ukraine ready to leave Poland. We are looking for a place for them in the Netherlands in cooperation with the Rotary club from Nijmegen.
Our actions to help refugees from Ukraine, apart from Rotary clubs from Poland, Germany and the Netherlands, are already supported by Rotary clubs from the USA and Japan.
- March 11
We received information that another 46 people from Lviv declared their willingness to go to Denmark. Lions Club Hobro will send another bus for them.
- March 10
The previously announced group of 10 people reached the guest house near Stargard. Three more people are expected. Włodek took them at the border. Renata, thank you for your hospitality and a big heart!
- Our action is supported by rotarians from the USA. Thanks to Julia Borowczyk, the daughter of our club mate, we have just received a significant donation from the Rotary Club Litiitz. Previously, Julia was the president of Rotaract Szczecin at our club.
- March 9
The Danish bus from Lions Club Hobro reached Przeworsk at 5 am. The drivers were hired by local firefighters for the 9-hour compulsory break; there were no places in hotels. Zbyszek Dziedzic from RC Jarosław helped to unload and place in a rented warehouse sleeping bags, blankets, mats, etc. brought by bus. Our club colleague Włodek Dominiczak took care of the bus and found 50 people who immediately left for Denmark. We got confirmation that they had just cleared at the Danish border.
- March 8
The Lions club from Denmark sent a bus to collect refugees, which we directed to Włodek on the Polish-Ukrainian border. The Danes provide accommodation, food, social care, school and employment to refugees from Ukraine.
- Four sailors from the Rotary Club Stargard and Rotary Club Szczecin started, on the initiative of the president of the club Grzegorz Kotyński, their own project to help refugees. The goal has not been specified yet, but it will be coordinated with the district action.
- Rotary Szczecin International is organizing a charity concert. The funds obtained will be used to help refugees from Ukraine.
- The guesthouse near Stargard, made available to us by Renata Węgrzyn - a former rotarian, is filling up. One family already lives there - grandmother, mother and nine-month-old granddaughter. On the way from Kiev, there are 7 people from the action of the Rotary district in Poland and 10 people taken from the border by our club colleague Włodek Dominiczak. Włodek has been circling the Polish-Ukrainian border for over a week and helps refugees by providing emergency care, transport and accommodation. He does it on his own initiative! Of course, we help him and coordinate our actions.
- March 5
After a two-day stay in Szczecin, our Ukrainian guests went to Dziwnów. In a group of 30 there are 19 children aged 9 months to 18 years, five from the Zhidachivia orphanage.
Photo: Before leaving for Dziwnów
