Together, they played ukulele and talked about which Hogwarts house they are in. “The daughter loved Harry Potter and art,” Pohl wrote. On March 7, her first two guests arrived - a mother and an 11-year-old daughter. She moved out of her bedroom - letting the refugees sleep in her bed - and onto a pull-out couch in her second room. She joked that the solution to the massive work load the volunteers face is “child labor.” She said 1,000 young Ukrainian refugees are joining the Polish public school system every day, and they all need school supplies, so a few weeks ago she filled 100 backpacks with supplies.Ī fifth-grade class at her school assembled hygiene kits to be given to refugees crossing the border. Currently, his group is raising money to buy an all-terrain ambulance. 24, his unit has served 1,500 refugees and rescued 300 animals.
She recently spoke with a medic named Hubert who had been primarily a veterinarian until the invasion, when his focus shifted from animals to humans. She said the kids didn’t pay much mind, but the parents were still shell shocked. When a balloon popped, it was was startling to the adults. “Some of them arrive with untreated injuries from bombs,” Pohl said.Ī colleague of hers, Teo, learned to make balloon animals for the kids. Last week, she watched medics at the train station attend to people coming from the city of Mariupol. Now, with food more readily available, they need medical supplies. At first, people arriving by trains needed food. Throughout March, she was going on two or three supply runs a week, but then supermarkets started running out of the food they needed.Īnd the needs have changed. In the first few weeks, Pohl gave handfuls of cash directly to families arriving at the Central Train Station in Warsaw who were living out of shopping bags and suitcases. Her sister Rachel got a Finger Lakes winery, Rasta Ranch Vineyards, involved, too. Raquette River Brewing in Tupper Lake brewed a special beer, the proceeds of which are all going to Pohl. Rebecca Pohl, a Raquette Lake native living in Warsaw, Poland, said this Ukrainian mother who fled a Russian invasion of her country and arrived at the train station in Poland with only a few possessions, “burst into tears” when volunteers gave her an envelope of cash.
Pohl is using donations, often from people in the North Country, to directly buy the things refugees arriving in Poland need. Rebecca Pohl, a Raquette Lake native living in Warsaw, Poland, snapped this picture of her friend Jonica as they shopped for food and sustenance for Ukrainian refugees entering their city, fleeing a Russian invasion. She said the woman to her right in a mask was the first Ukrainian refugee she and a group of volunteers gave money to when they arrived at a train station where refugees were entering Poland. Rebecca Pohl, in the red scarf, is a Raquette Lake native living in Warsaw, Poland. Pohl, a native of Raquette Lake, is part of a massive effort in Warsaw to help Ukrainian refugees. Rebecca Pohl, right, with a scarf on, was in a photo with Vice President Kamala Harris when Harris visited Warsaw, Poland last month. Iryna and Oksana eventually moved to live with family. Pohl said the three of them would play ukulele and discuss Harry Potter. Iryna and Oksana lived with Pohl for a week last month after fleeing their country during the Russian invasion. Rebecca Pohl, right, a Raquette Lake native living in Warsaw, Poland, smiles with a Ukrainian mother and daughter, Iryna, center, and Oksana.
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