'As a volunteer on the Polish-Ukraine border, it's those forced to pass on the worst news: telling sons and daughters they won’t see their daddy again, that hit me the hardest.' ✍️ Volunteer Amandeep Singh for MetroOpinion
My team and I start at 8am and finish at 12am, sometimes 1am. We don’t sleep. Instead, we take calls, provide medical aid and whatever support we can
To witness what they were going through was devastating, but their story is one we have heard many times over the past month. I remember getting a call from the CEO, Ravi Singh, saying that lots of Indian students based in Kharkiv who spoke Punjabi were calling and that I needed to go out and help. I soon discovered I was just one of many volunteers who had travelled the UK to the Ukrainian borders of Poland, Romania, Moldova, Slovakia and Hungary to help those in need of clothes and food. I tried to cross the border into the Ukraine when I first came here but it was a seven-hour queue, so I remained at the border between Ukraine and Poland in Przemyśl.
A few volunteers from Poland, all from the Punjabi community, got in touch and we set up as a team. We managed to hire a bus and took the students to a safer location, 250km away, where they could stay overnight. The next day we dropped them at the train station, where they left to go to Warsaw. Thankfully, we received news that they reached their families safely.
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