The Juntos por la Vida Foundation has sent humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian city of Kherson, for the people evacuated and affected by the flooding caused by the destruction of the Nova Kajovka dam. The Foundation for Good Deeds, which is its counterpart in Ukraine, together with a team from the Valencian NGO, is distributing aid this weekend among those affected. They need medicines, water purifiers and all kinds of help that the NGO is collecting at its headquarters in Valencia.
Nadia Filimonova, president of the Foundation for Good Deeds, affirms from Kherson that the situation in this city is very hard: “There are many people who have been left homeless. There is a great need for drinking water, it is the most important thing, for we have brought water from Kiev and the rest of the necessary help”.
Nadia participates in the distribution of aid that has been transferred “in a van that Together for Life brought from Valencia, a vehicle that is a mobile energy point, which is very necessary in Kherson because there is no energy. We have brought humanitarian aid , blankets and other food and hygiene products that have arrived from different cities in Spain, which continue to help in this serious catastrophe that we have.”
The president of Juntos Por la Vida, Clara Arnal, assures that the volunteers have been able to enter the city to the neighborhoods where the people who lived in the flooded houses are being evacuated, where the entire civilian population has been transferred. The flooded area can only be accessed by boats and rescue services. In addition, attacks are taking place, and it is dangerous to access. The evacuees are being welcomed in centers that have been organized for them.
However, and despite the difficulties, this Saturday the NGO team was able to arrive by boat to one of the areas with water where there are villages with flooded houses, to distribute aid to those affected.
According to Clara Arnal, “the most imminent needs that have been identified are purification tablets because the water carries many bacteria and it is unhealthy, also purification filters, as well as medicines to combat gastrointestinal diseases that are already occurring in many adults and children. and also food.”
Anyone who wants to donate aid can do so at the NGO’s headquarters in Valencia, at Calle Alicante 27, to later send it to Ukraine.
For her part, Nadia Filimonova from Ukraine assures that “Now we are dealing with the most urgent, but soon, we will see the results of this great catastrophe that will have humanitarian and ecological consequences and will affect thousands of people. That is why we need a lot of help. , especially to “clean” the water because drinking water is the most important thing for people to survive, and to be able to return to their homes.”
