Ok we are at the start of a new journey.
We have used the OPORA website to match to a Mother, her son and her mother ( so three generations !).
They are fleeing Russian occupied Norrhern Ukraine - they will head first to Ukrainian held territory and relative safety, before crossing to Poland and awaiting the outcome of visa applications.
It’s not safe to stay where they are, yet others have been shot trying to leave
And we have seen the news of what can happen when they retreat
it’s ‘kin inhumane and unbelievable in the modern Western World.
We will start the applications this evening and finish them tomorrow.
It’s then a waiting game - weeks apparently…….
OPORA will help them with free travel from Poland to the UK- we will meet them wherever they enter the U.K.
We have some minor preparations this end, removing junk from the spare rooms, a little remedial decoration to make sure things are ship shape fore them.
I am going to buy a TV for one of their rooms and replace the TV in the garden cabin (I gave away the last one ).
We may have to swap out one of the double beds and buy two singles, depending on what they feel most comfortable with.
As things progress I will update.
I am already feeling responsible for them - it’s only now that they have somewhere to come to they can leave, but leaving is dangerous
