Marco Volpini from San Marino, expedition for the delivery of humanitarian material to Lviv
Roll up your sleeves to keep hope alive: great solidarity also passes through small gestures and firm will. Come that of San Marino Marco Volpini that he chose, thanks to his friend’s contacts Franco Cappellettito make their time available by joining a groups of volunteers from Cantù and the Parish of Maccioin the province of Como, for the transport of donations, food and material destined for two reception centers in Lviv.
“This is for me the second trip, – says Marco Volpini – and it is the first time that I have reached Ukraine directly. Last time we went to a service center in Poland, delivered and brought to Italy two families (two mothers, four children and a teenager), this time we went to Lviv to deliver approx 14 quintals of material food, drugs, and then diapers, diapers, strollers, blankets and sleeping bags for the military at the front. We had to bring a family to Italy again this time but then it was not possible due to bureaucratic problems “.
A Ukrainian city further west, close to the border with Poland, Lviv is no longer so safe. The story of the apparent normality between open shops and people on the street despite the plane alarms.
“In Lviv – adds Marco – this there is no sense of war, in the sense that people gather in the square, families living a normal life; then instead we visited a military church and there we have people with photographs probably of dead soldiers on the ground, the atmosphere in that case was much darker and there was more the feeling of a country at war which in Lviv luckily you can’t see it. Even if, however, at 11 pm the curfew is triggered and even tonight we were surprised at around 1 am by the anti-missile sirens, with the possibility that there was some bombing; then after a quarter of an hour the all-clear siren sounded “.