KAKS brings RB families from Ukraine and helps
We could never have done it without all the helpers.
But when the call came from Kiev, it was clear that we would help quickly and unbureaucratically.
The young doctor Lesia Voitko from Kiev writes to us: “Dear Monica, I am worried.
I am continuing to work as long as possible but patients can not come to visit and I am not sure that Kiev is save for them.
I try to evacuate as many patients as possible.
Some I send to Italy, several continue treatment in Poland.
But I still have 5 patients who evacuated by themselves.
I will be appreciate if you can take care of them for treatment and observation until this hell is end.
I ask to help me until all this stop, because I am afraid that we lose time while waiting for deescalation.
I appreciate you help and support in such hard time.
“Together with many individual helpers, the Ukrainian doctors, the university hospital in Essen, the Charite and the German Sailing League, we are accommodating these families, offering them a first home, accompanying them to the university hospital for examinations and treatment – a huge effort for the families, which we are trying to support as best we can.
The children’s therapy is the main focus, but the war traumas – they also have to be dealt with.
For the vast majority of children, treatment must continue.
On 1.4.
22 the Ukrainian families meet with their host families at Elli’s Eyeland.
Without them, this would have been a suicide mission – and our gratitude is immense: Jutta and Jürgen, Nini and Tonia, Kerstin and Carl, Dorothea and Tomas, Cathrin and Ramin – you traveled with the families to Essen and accompanied them, still do today, you let them into your homes, provided bed and food, you provide apartments free of charge, you make official visits and visits to the doctor, you find schools for the children, internships and jobs for the parents – after four weeks with us, we see a bit of courage to face life, trust, hope in their eyes again.
Thank you.
