With the Russian invasion ongoing in Ukraine, more than 2 million refugees have fled for border countries, including 1.2 million to Poland, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
It’s there where Dorota Serafin, ‘06 WEMBA, is leading the team at Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) to provide critical humanitarian aid in both countries.
"On [March 4], our load of food kits and hygiene kits made it safely to Lviv [Ukraine] and is being distributed to central and western Ukraine,” says Serafin, PAH’s executive director, via email from her office in Warsaw. “This is a weekly supply for 2,000 people only, including infants, and older children, but the humanitarian channels are still being created, so it is a good start.”
Serafin and her team at PAH, who have been working in Ukraine for eight years, are planning for “many, many more” kits to be sent. They are taking donations on their website as well as working with organizations, such as the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, to raise funds to support their work.
