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Frequent updates on my personal Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/paul.jeris
FOX 8 Cleveland: https://fox8.com/news/just-want-to-make-a-difference-northeast-ohio-man-helps-ukrainian-refugees-at-border/
Cleveland 19 News: https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/03/07/northeast-ohio-man-hands-out-cash-ukrainian-refugees-poland/
My name is Paul Jeris, you may know me from Put-in-Bay, and depending on how far this is shared, you may not know me at all. I spent most of the last week on the Medyka border between Ukraine and Poland. I flew from Cleveland, Ohio to Warsaw and made my way right to the border in hopes of offering any assistance I could. I brought $10,000 USD (all I could legally) with the goal to give $100 each to 100 refugee families (women and children) and render any other aid I was able. After a brief return to Cleveland to recharge, I am heading back to the border to offer more aid.
FOX 8 Cleveland: https://fox8.com/news/just-want-to-make-a-difference-northeast-ohio-man-helps-ukrainian-refugees-at-border/
Cleveland 19 News: https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/03/07/northeast-ohio-man-hands-out-cash-ukrainian-refugees-poland/
My name is Paul Jeris, you may know me from Put-in-Bay, and depending on how far this is shared, you may not know me at all. I spent most of the last week on the Medyka border between Ukraine and Poland. I flew from Cleveland, Ohio to Warsaw and made my way right to the border in hopes of offering any assistance I could. I brought $10,000 USD (all I could legally) with the goal to give $100 each to 100 refugee families (women and children) and render any other aid I was able. After a brief return to Cleveland to recharge, I am heading back to the border to offer more aid.
I can tell you firsthand that the need is real and the situation is heartbreaking. It was a surreal situation with a famous piano player who travels playing his piano pulled by a bicycle at major disasters. Thousands of people waiting for buses and help, in the cold, alone and frightened. You can visit my Facebook page to get an idea of the reality on the ground.
Every dollar that you donate will go directly to Ukrainian refugees. Not my flights or lodging, no organizational middlemen. Cash, directly from my hands, into theirs. A colleague of mine made a $500 donation, and he said to me that it was a drop in the bucket. I told him that that money went right to 5 Ukrainian families, and to them, it was a full bucket. Let's fill some buckets together!
Every dollar that you donate will go directly to Ukrainian refugees. Not my flights or lodging, no organizational middlemen. Cash, directly from my hands, into theirs. A colleague of mine made a $500 donation, and he said to me that it was a drop in the bucket. I told him that that money went right to 5 Ukrainian families, and to them, it was a full bucket. Let's fill some buckets together!
God Bless the Polish people accepting hundreds of thousands of people with no notice and quickly and efficiently as they could, and also Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova. Humanity shows its best when things are their worst.
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Paul Jeris
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Cleveland, OH