Is the UK Government failing Ukrainian refugees?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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When Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, thousands signed up to support Ukrainian refugees and put them up in their own homes. Nearly a year on, is our government still doing enough to support those fleeing the war? Stan Beneš, a trustee of Opora, a charity which helps Ukrainians to settle in the UK, joins Ros Taylor to explore what we can do to help those displaced by the conflict in Ukraine. https://opora.uk/ “Instead of government support, it became the job of charities to match people.” “There is no one cohesive process of matching Ukrainian refugees with sponsors.” “People were finding hosts on Facebook.” Support us on Patreon www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Ros Taylor. Producers: Jet Gerbertson and Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah.
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0:55.5	after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Ros Taylor. More than 134,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the UK since the war broke out.
1:18.0	How are they coping? What are their lives like?
1:21.0	And have we kept our promise to look after them. Stan Benish is a trustee
1:25.6	and founder of the charity of poorer which works with Ukrainian refugees.
1:29.4	Welcome to the bunker Stan. Hi Rose, thanks for having me.
1:33.0	You're of Czech heritage, aren't you?
1:35.0	How did you get involved in Napora?
1:37.0	It's more of a personal story, I guess.
1:39.0	Our founder is a gentleman named Yeagor, who is a friend of mine he's Ukrainian by birth from
1:46.4	Odessa we met in the Czech Republic in school and at the outset I asked whether he wanted any help and I've been with
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