In Portugal, how does the Ukrainian community react to the war?
It gained expression from 1999 and, currently, integrates areas integrated by its country of several decades that witness the great concern to the unfolding of the conflict in its country.
The first interviewee is a surgeon, Dmytro Nagirnyak, who came to Portugal in 2014 with the first invasion. From the course, he recalls the military training, which was a common core of the curricular plan.
In Portugal, he found his mother, a nurse, and his brother, also a doctor. He works in the emergency department of Torre Novas, from where he follows the course of the war, but the news that arrives from the East does not reassure him.
The flight has already forced the displacement of more than 1 million people and the destruction justifies the fear.
Oksana Rybak was born in Donetsk, is a chemical engineer, holds a doctorate in the field, and coordinates an incubator in Abrantes. Before, at the University of Lisbon, she dealt with student exchanges and brought Ukrainians who stayed here.
Men came, who brought families who settled down and started their own business.
Maryna Kinash is technical and business: she has her own salon, works with her sister-in-law and her husband also runs his own company. The problem is the family that doesn’t come from there.
The salon has been one of outer and inner beauty, being a gateway to help send and distribute to refugees.
Also in Castelo Branco, a group of women emotionally comments on the course of the conflict.
Already the children with age with the Portuguese arrived, together in the garden with the associated children, who are associated, to integrate. It would be all right if it weren’t for the war.
Meanwhile, women and children begin to come. The Amato Lusitano Association has 20 years of experience in the integration of immigrants and will respond to this challenge.