Report from Poland: Foreign volunteers flock to help Ukrainian migrants

Published on: 03/25/2022 – 12:27 France 24 special envoys, Pauline Godart, Ellen Gainsford and Raid Abu Zaideh, traveled to Medyka on the Polish-Ukrainian border, where hundreds of Ukrainian migrants flock every day . They met many volunteers there, including French and Belgians who had come to help. They are not attached to any association or NGO. Most decided to come here after seeing television reports, deeply moved by what was happening there. Nappies, milk, toys, stuffed animals, but also boxes of chocolates prepared by the Malmeudy chocolate maker in Belgium. France 24 met Jonathan, a Belgian volunteer, who traveled more than 1,500 kilometers on his own initiative to deliver the donations he collected in his municipality for the Ukrainians, in particular the children present in Medyka, in Poland. inexhaustible number of hundreds of Ukrainian migrants, having fled the war, arrive every day on this Polish-Ukrainian border. There, Jonathan meets Jeremy and Nicolas, two French people from the Vosges, who arrived a few hours earlier by car with 400 blankets and medicine. “They [les migrants ukrainiens] are almost embarrassed by everything that is brought to them. They are very courteous. And frankly, it’s nice to see a few smiles a little bit,” says another Frenchman, a firefighter from Nice. Stands stand here and there, displaying colored balloons and the flags of the countries of these European volunteers. here, the English even offer cotton candy to children.