The aid trail to Ukraine

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Millions of Ukrainians have fled the country since the Russian invasion began, some leaving with little more than the clothes on their backs. It's prompted an outpouring of support from around the world - with ordinary people loading lorries with donations and shipping them thousands of miles to help refugees. We follow the aid trail from a small business in north west England to the Ukrainian border and explore whether it's better to give goods or money.

We'll hear from Bob Kitchen, the International Rescue Committee's head of emergencies about giving cash directly to refugees and from Joung-ah Ghedini-Williams, Head of Global Communications at UNHCR about sustaining the support going forwards.

Presenter: Helen Ledwick Reporter/Producer: Jo Critcher

(Image: Aid lorry; Credit: Jason Shinks, Recycling Lives)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Helen Ledwick, and in today's Business Daily from the BBC, we're following the aid trail to Ukraine.
0:07.6	We see a box that's come from us and you just think, it's got there, wow, it's going to go to a family now and they are going to be able to use it.
0:14.9	We'll ask whether it's more effective to donate goods or money and speak to a global humanitarian organisation
0:21.1	handing out aid in the form of cash.
0:23.7	We have $1.5 million worth of ATM cards
0:28.4	going into Poland.
0:30.8	They're precharged.
0:32.0	They have credit on them
0:33.0	and we will give them to refugee families.
0:35.3	This is Business Daily from the BBC.
0:42.7	Welcome back to CBS mornings.
0:44.9	The United Nations says three million Ukrainians have now fled their country.
0:48.6	Ukrainian officials say humanitarian corridors have now open to evacuate civilians.
0:53.4	Images of Ukrainians fleeing homes and leaving behind loved ones have shocked the world in recent weeks.
0:59.8	This conflict causing a refugee crisis on an almost unprecedented scale.
1:05.1	Exhausted and traumatized, these refugees have fled every corner of Ukraine.
1:10.1	Many narrowly escaped the Russian bombings.
1:12.3	They're arriving across the border in places like Romania.
1:15.7	They don't even have food or water.
1:17.6	Millions have fled the country.
1:19.4	Many more are displaced within,
1:21.3	and it's prompted an outpouring of help
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