How European businesses are helping Ukrainian refugees

Business Daily

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4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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People across Europe are opening up their homes and businesses to Ukrainians as the refugee crisis tops 3 million. Ivanka, a Ukrainian social worker who has fled to Poland, tells us about the generosity of hotelier Dorota Baranska, who is now housing her and hundreds of other refugees in her hotels. And Eugen Comandent, COO of Purcari Wineries in Moldova, explains why his company has transformed its estate into a refugee centre. Matthew Saltmarsh from the UN’s refugee agency says this is Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War Two and that generous countries on Ukraine’s border are starting to run out of resources. But some people based farther west are trying to create virtual ways to help. Ivan Kychatyi, a Ukrainian based in Berlin, has created the job portal UAtalents.com to that helps Ukrainians who are internally displaced or who have fled the country to find a job. And in Amsterdam, Guido Baratta has set up Designers United for Ukraine, specifically to help Ukrainians in the creative industries find work. This programme is presented by Tamasin Ford and produced by Sarah Hawkins and Tom Kavanagh

(Photograph: Women distribute food and hot drinks at a Moldovan winery close to the Ukrainian border, Credit: Purcari Wineries)

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Tamerson Ford. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. People across Europe are opening up
0:08.4	their homes and businesses to Ukrainians as the refugee crisis tops three million. I was really
0:15.3	deeply touched by the open heart of that family because it looks like the family business, you know.
0:23.4	But there are fears that Ukraine's neighbouring countries are reaching breaking point.
0:28.2	The pressure has certainly been building in the case of Poland where the vast majority of refugees
0:34.0	have arrived. The strains are already beginning to show.
0:37.3	In today's Business Daily from
0:39.1	the BBC, we take a look at the escalating refugee crisis since Russia invaded Ukraine, along with the
0:46.0	people and businesses doing what they can to help. More than three million people have now fled Ukraine.
0:57.3	The majority of them, around 2 million, are now in Poland.
1:01.5	That's more people than the entire population of Poland's capital, Warsaw.
1:06.6	When I left Zelviv, I had a feeling like I'm in some movie about Second World War
1:13.0	because I saw the soldiers with the guns on the street.
1:19.0	I see lots of broken destinies and broken families here.
1:24.8	Two weeks ago, 36-year-old Ivanka fled Ukraine.
1:29.6	Oh, it was really painful. I'm a strong person and you know, last 10 years I ask a God,
1:41.9	please give me a family and husband.
1:51.3	But first time in my life, I thought, okay, God, thank you that I don't have family.
2:00.1	Because when I saw my brother's family who has three months old daughter and young wife,
2:05.2	and three times a day they spent in the underground it was horrible.
2:10.6	Polish people have opened up their homes, their communities and their businesses to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. Ivanka, who's a social worker, told me the extraordinary story of how one woman, Dorota
2:20.8	Beranska, came to host her and more than 700 refugees in her three hotels, including
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