We would like to thank everyone from our friends in Ukraine for your support. Everything that we managed to organize and convey is the merit of everyone who supported our donation – each of you individually. Each of us has the right to feel proud of what we have achieved. As I wrote earlier, the ambulances went to Ivano-Frankivsk and they will remain at the disposal of the authorities there. If necessary, they will go to support the fighters. Each of you has transferred some of your good and this good is now serving people who need it very much and who appreciate it very much. We were at the border. We saw dozens, maybe hundreds of people exhausted by fleeing the war, exhausted physically and mentally. Mothers with children who left their relatives and their belongings, not knowing if they would return there, and if so, they do not know if there will be anything to come back to (?) I’ll remind that when Polak’s were fleeing from war in the past, they ended up in different countries around the world and were also accepted as refugees. We were welcomed in, for example, Romania. From history we know the circumstances and accounts of those who received help there. I just want to make you realize how difficult the situation is for people who have nothing, because the war has taken all their belongings. The rest of the collection money will be spent on helping those who are now in Poland, because they often only have what they brought in their bags and backpacks. We will seek shelter for them and support them in organizing their lives until they can return to their homes in Ukraine. We have to do it now, because before the bureaucratic machinery starts, these people have to live somewhere and function somehow. We leave the “big” things and gestures to the politicians…
Wojciech Marchelak
