Daily News | A Temple grad decided he had to help Ukrainian refugees — and headed to Poland
When Temple University graduate Dharmik Sheth took off for Poland, deciding in a minute’s time to help the Ukrainian refugees flooding into the country, he carried more than bags of soaps, shampoos, and toothbrushes.
Sheth, 33, isn’t a physician. Or a disaster specialist. He didn’t save anyone’s life, brought no urgently needed skills or equipment to Polish villages awash in people fleeing the war in Ukraine. “I’m just a simple guy, with a kid,” said Sheth, who lives with his wife and baby in Robbinsville, N.J., in Mercer County.
Sheth grew up in Lawrenceville, N.J., a suburban bedroom community near Trenton. After college, he worked in Center City for PwC, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and today he’s a finance director at Bristol Myers Squibb in Princeton. Sheth learned that for refugees — Poland has drawn nearly two-thirds of the 3.3 million who have fled — crossing the line was not the end of their journey. Reaching the actual camps required refugees to walk nearly another half-mile.At one point he saw a woman outside a tent, playing a guitar and singing Polish prayers, an effort to introduce normality into chaos.She didn’t mind. He sang, “Bedh voh to Kisime nahi dekhta, chahata he sabse rahe ekta! Man usiki karo prathana….
In the Budomierz camp, Sheth realized he was being followed by a boy who was maybe 15. The young man didn’t want supplies — he wanted Sheth’s empty bag. He said he needed it to lug the belongings of his mother and grandfather, needed to step into the role of his absent father.Sheth asked the boy’s grandfather, “Are you happy your grandson is now safe?”A 68-year-old woman at Medyka needed two canes to walk herself out of Ukraine. She had a phone number for her son in Canada.
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