Updates from Operation SafeDrop

We have made sufficient connections to have some new operations. There is less need at the UK desk as they continue to be stalled by the UK visa process. However, I would be remiss if I didn't give some context to the situation. The UK requires Ukrainians to find a sponsor family (on their own or...

Our friend Igor introduced us to an area of need that has become one of our focuses going forward. Igor was incredibly reluctant to accept aid at first, but as he understood that we were all here with crowd sourcing and a desire to help, he got on board. He and his wife described the reality of...

There has been a ton of back and forth in the wishes of the city government and the county government vs the international presence at our center. The priority of some of the Polish government is to move people directly from the border to the train station instead of coming to us. Evidently the...

With so many people packed into rooms where 100 or more people are sleeping side by side in cots, it's not shocking that a wave of a rotavirus hit the humanitarian centre this past week. The Polish management of the centre had to make a decision as to whether to let the refugees there stay if...

It is becoming clearer every day how much safer the transportation from the border is than when we first arrived. Before any structure or order was in place at the humanitarian centers it was pure chaos. People, and almost exclusively men, were coming from all over Europe in their private cars,...