TCUP Brief 6: Inside Poland's Humanitarian Response

In our TCUP Briefs series, Dr. Emily Channell-Justice, director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, shares key insights and questions from recent presentations and papers on the war in Ukraine.
This brief is a little different. Channell-Justice discusses her recent experience assisting volunteer efforts in Warsaw, Poland. She describes informational resources at the central train station, a food tent run by World Central Kitchen, and a "free shop" where refugees could go for groceries, supplies, and clothing. In addition to sharing observations about who volunteers and why, she covers a few ways well-intentioned donations miss the mark and the response of Ukrainian refugees to assistance from strangers.
Links:
Poland cuts food, transport, housing benefits for Ukrainian refugees: www.i24news.tv/en/news/ukrain...
In Central Europe, generosity towards Ukrainian refugees is reevaluated as costs mount and solidarity wanes: www.lemonde.fr/en/internation...
TCUP Brief 5: How Many Ukrainian Refugees Are There in Poland? • TCUP Brief 5: How Many...
Dig Deeper:
Practices of Solidarity: Ukrainian Refugee and Host Communities in Joensuu (Finland): • Practices of Solidarit...
TCUP Brief 1: A Closer Look at IDP and Refugee Estimates: • TCUP Brief 1: A Closer...
World Central Kitchen: wck.org/
Russia's War on Ukraine: What You Can Do: huri.harvard.edu/russia-ukrai...