Give shelter to Ukranian Refugees

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Bottom line:

I am spending my days in the Przemysl Train Station, through which almost all Ukrainian refugees flow for processing and subsequent movement. These refugees, and most especially refugees of African/Middle Eastern decent, need temporary housing. Your funds will go directly to booking beds in hostels for individuals, and frugal hotel rooms for families. As well as some basic foodstuffs and toiletries for those no longer receiving them from humanitarian organizations.

Long form:

The Polish authorities are taking care of the basic dietary and sanitary needs of the refugees, but there's no beds anywhere at these train stops turned transit camps. People just stand around or catch a nap on the ground for 12-36 hours until they get a ticket to move along to another destination. The white refugees, European and slavic people, typically have family or friends around Europe to put them up, or even own properties in the West. The refugees of African and Middle Eastern descent have no such support nets. The Polish government, overwhelmed and unable to deal with the scope of that problem, is essentially just sending them to the large population centers, Krakow and Warsaw, without really a way to provide for their welfare.

Once these refugees arrive to these cities, they typically don't have family that can send them much cash, and the Ukrainian currency they have on hand is worth more as paper, leaving them no options for food and shelter.

What I'm doing is scooping up cheap hostel rooms, and I'm physically staying at the main transit hub (Przemysl Train Station) near the Polish-Ukranian border with a cardboard sign to tell people that I have free temporary lodging. They come to me, and I attempt to hook them up with the address and directions, get them on a train, and am available on the phone if they have any subsequent issues. I then work with the hostels/hotels to keep me informed on how many free beds I have so I can keep people moving through. I also am making some special accommodation for some families in really dire straights, and getting them lodging in a hotel right in town near the transit camp, or another few hotels right by the train station in Warsaw and Rzeszow. At the main hostel in Warsaw that is housing refugees, I also try to ensure they have some foodstuff for free.

The cost to put up a refugee in a hostel for a night is $20, and the cost to put up a family of 5-ish people in a hotel varies, but is around $75-$100. Right now I'm putting up around 45-50 people a day. Altogether, I think around 130 people have slept in a bed and gotten a shower to which they wouldn't otherwise have had access. I've spent some 6k of my own funds, but I'm starting to run low.

I need your help, to help these victims of a senseless authoritarian's machinations against a sovereign and democratic state.