Ukrainian refugees, including Valeria and her son Misha, cross the border into Poland near the town of Hrebenne. In the border zone between Ukraine and Poland, refugees that cross on buses must pass through a checkpoint with their luggage.
Ukrainian refugees, including Valeria and her son Misha, cross the border into Poland near the town of Hrebenne. In the border zone between Ukraine and Poland, refugees that cross on buses must pass through a checkpoint with their luggage.
A school gym, Hala Sportowa, Lubycza Królewska, serves as temporary housing for refugees in the Polish border town, Hrebenne.
Some of the many drawings by Ukrainian refugee children that were informally displayed at an arts and crafts station in a converted school gym, Hala Sportowa, Lubycza Królewska.
CARE President and CEO Michelle Nunn (left) and Deepmala Mahla, CARE VP for Humanitarian Affairs, comfort Liudmyla Staston, a Ukrainian teacher, who just received certification in Poland to teach the refugee kids, who have flooded into their neighboring country’s school systems. CARE is partnering with humanitarian group, PCPM. Liudmyla Staston fled Ukraine with her 13-year-old daughter, but also misses the school children she taught back in Ukraine. Photographed on Thursday, April 14, at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.
Ukrainian refugee Marina embraces her daughter, Arina, moments after passing through border control into Poland near the town of Hrebenne. Mother and daughter were fleeing the Sumy region in Northwest Ukraine. CARE is working with our partners Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) at the border and elsewhere to provide food, water, clothing and other necessities to refugees.
All photos: Laura Noel/CARE