Humanitarian Group Creates New Communities For Ukrainian Refugees

5 million refugees are fleeing the Ukraine without much of a plan to tell them what we're going to do to help them, as they leave that war torn country. Mike Papantonio is joined by Donniya Davies from the Sanctuary Foundation to talk about what we can do to welcome Ukrainian refugees into our community.

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5 million refugees coming out of the Ukraine without much of a plan to tell them what we're gonna do to help 'em as, as they leave that country, that war torn country. So what do we do? Well, I have got the expert with us, it is Donniya Davies and she's, she's been at this for a very long time and she can help us better understand what it is we can do. A lot of times what ends up happening Donniya is we know sometimes a problem is so big that we, it, it's almost like we can't, we can't get our arms around the problem. You're talking about the aspect there's very specific things we can do.

Absolutely.

There's, there, there are very specific things we can do to welcome Ukrainian refugees into our community. Right now in the United States that's not really happening.

No.

We're hearing a hundred thousand refugees are coming. There's no sign of that so far. Pick it up from there. What, what is it that we ought to be thinking about as this develops?

Thank you, Mike. I can only explain what we're doing in the UK with Sanctuary Foundation. What we're trying to do is we're trying to work alongside the UK government that have actually proposed 200,000 Ukrainian refugees coming to the UK. What we've done is we've gone out to the public and we've said, who wants to be a part of this? And within moments and weeks we've managed to get 30,000 people that are individuals, businesses, civil groups, universities, schools, that have said, we want to build community and help these refugees, to match hosts with these refugee families. And what it is is it's a simple approach of community to community, where we actually get a community of Ukrainians that have been living in humanitarian centers in Poland or in Moldova or in Romania and what we do is we transplant them almost into a community in the UK.

And when you say community, that means a home. I mean, they, they, they have a home. Somebody says, we're not just gonna bring you into our home, but we have, we've also lined up a job for you.

That's right.

You can work here, here or here. So in the United States, that's really the starting point to me is I think about what it is we can do. Right now in the United States of course, we're confronted with the idea we've got immigration issues coming across the border and because of that, people are saying, well, they're almost shutting down where it comes to saying, well, how do we bring in more refugees from the UK? I mean, excuse me, from, from the Ukraine. But the point is this, there's very specific things we can do.

Absolutely.

Right now in the United States we're faced with a work shortage. If you go to restaurants or you go to many, many organizations and they say, we can't get, we can't get enough people to stock ourselves. We can't get enough people to even work in this restaurant. And it's happening across the board, it's happening in white collar settings where we need, we need people who can, who can operate at a very high level from a managerial standpoint, they can't even get those folks. So isn't this a perfect time for us to be thinking about how do we bring Ukrainian refugees into the United States in an organized kinda way?

Absolutely. A lot of these refugees are actually working in some of our centers in Poland. We've got fulfillment centers that are like Amazon warehouses, and they've come and they're volunteering and we're employing them. You know, there's global empowerment mission that is out there. They've got warehouses fulfillment centers and they have got Ukrainian people.

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