New humanitarian flight transports 263 more refugees to Portugal – Observer
Another 263 Ukrainian refugees are due to arrive in Portugal on Thursday in an organized by the association Ukrainian Refugees (UAPT), which has already brought more than a thousand refugees since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
The airline EuroAtlantic Airways will make the new flight to the UAPT, scheduled to arrive in Lisbon on April 21, bound for Lublin, Poland.
The plane will leave Lisbon with about 15 tons of medicines and generators to help those in Poland and those on the border of the conflict, returning the same day with 263 Ukrainian refugeeswho is already living in a Polish reception center in Lublin, announced Iryna Shkira, one of the association’s members.
Iryna Shrikira who “helped helper to Lviv”, the Monday, five-year target, which was after five Russians.
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Close to the border, Lviv has been spared the Russian city, but there are a number of attacks in the surroundings. Lviv is one of the main corridors of escape for displaced people and refugees from the areas most affected by the war.
This one will be the fifth organized by the associationborn of the will of a group of people who are in a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Lisbon.
The four humanitarian flights carried out so far have brought to Portugal 1,012 refugeesin most women, children, the elderly and people with disabilities, as the majority of men were mobilized for war.
The experience of the members’ families.
After the first flight, on March 10, “everything became much easier”, recalled the initiative. On the third trip, waiting lists even appeared: “Our flights fill up in minutes. We had about a thousand people on the waiting list”, said Iryna Shkira, adding that the association keeps in touch with the people on the list and with some discoveries coming by bus.
In Portugal, the association’s approximately 60 volunteers accompany the families from the moment they arrive: “We ended up being a kind of mentor to help with whatever it takes,” said Iryna Shkira.
There is to deal with documentation, to arrange schools, arrange accommodation, social support, learn Portuguese or English and even get a job, but, according to the volunteer, the most difficult thing right now is to repair the trauma.
“It is only after a few weeks that people begin to realize that they are safe. Most of the majority of Ukraine, which is the most favorable zone for the war and therefore needs psychological support”, explained Iryna Shkira, part of the east that supports this support is being given.
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“Portugal is one of Europe’s best examples of welcoming. The people we have been following who, despite being in Portugal, have a little lower social support, there is no comparison in the way they are received here, with so much affection. Portugal is one of the best examples”, assured Iryna Shkira.