We have four Ukrainians arriving soon in Winchester. Two ladies each with a son. We urgently need help with essentials: flights, wheelchair, clothes, food, mobile phones etc. 

Anything you give will go directly to them through Refugease any extra Refugease will use for their ongoing work in Ukraine. (they are literally carrying old people and children out of basements and driving them to safety in an old van they've bought!)

If you can speak Russian (or Ukrainian), understand how to navigate the social care system or can offer any kind of non-financial support for them please message me (07855 483082), even if you just want to buy them a cup of tea and a cake! They are genuinely lovely women with amazing stories to tell. 

How this came about...

A journalist friend Pete Coombs and I spent around a week driving Refugees from Zahony train station on the Hungarian Ukrainian border to Budapest. Just taking women and children where they wanted to go.

The day before we left we met Larisa and Olha and their sons. They had no money, knew no one outside Ukraine and had never been out of Ukraine. Both women spent weeks without electricity in damp basements sheltering from the bombs. Olha’s son Artem is profoundly disabled, she carried him across a bombed out bridge to take him to the train station. She had to leave her mother and brother to make sure he had enough medicine for his epilepsy, if he runs out the seizures can cause lasting damage. 

Pete and I promised we wouldn't leave them until they were safe and happy. I really hope we can open our hearts and our great city to make these lovely people feel happy and secure again.  

Thanks for you help & compassion

Marty & Pete x

About Refugease 

Were a small n mighty UK-based NGO that lives to help our war-torn brothers and sisters around the globe. At your service: emergency humanitarian aid, crisis awareness, and education for refugees.Above all, we strive for their long-term independence. Our focuses are three-fold:1. Humanitarian aid: Serving refugee camps in Europe by sending life-saving aid and field-based volunteers, with a focus on France and the Greek islands.2. Awareness: Teaching UK children about the worlds bursting refugee crisis: why it's happened, what is happening, and how can they help.3. Education & Empowerment: Teaching refugees about their rights, offering child refugees an education they can build a future on, and upskilling adult refugees (in the UK and abroad) into employment to empower them long-term.