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The beauty salon has become a hub of volunteers: how help is collected for Ukraine in New York

'08.03.2022'

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A beauty salon in New York has become a hub for volunteers, now you can see Ukrainian flags, crowds of volunteers and a huge number of things here. Once upon a time people came here to change their appearance, but now they collect help for Ukrainians, reports “Voice of America".

The whole family of Natalia Mirovich is in Ukraine: parents and sister. Natalia and her sister are volunteers. Natalia is in New York, and her sister is in Ukraine. According to Natalia, her sister helped transport two buses of medicines to Kharkiv.

This salon belongs to Natalia and she helps all the volunteers who collect humanitarian aid for Ukrainians. From here, the first volunteers went to the units of the territorial defense of Ukraine.

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“Yesterday we saw off the guys who flew to Ukraine for the war,” says Natalia.

This initiative has received a huge response, so we had to set a schedule for volunteers. They come here after work and during breaks.

Ksenia Elishevich, an immigrant from Belarus, says the volunteers “help as much as they can.”

“Belarusians here and in my homeland are outraged that our territory is being used to kill Ukrainians,” Ksenia added.

According to Xenia, people come to help all the time. People are very responsive, some have to be sent back. When the volunteers said they were out of boxes, "they were inundated with boxes."

Volunteer Karolina Molochaeva says that people bring warm socks, icons with wishes, children's drawings, warm clothes.

Volunteer Elena Stanislavskaya says that they even brought shoes with heels, but the volunteers did not send them because of the heavy weight. They also bring blankets, pillows, and rugs.

In front of the entrance hung a list of necessary products, medicines, clothes.

How aid is sent to Ukraine

Here things are sorted and laid out in batches in boxes. From here, trucks haul boxes to nearby New Jersey. From the airport in New Jersey, aid is sent on special flights to Poland, then to Lviv.

Vasily Nagornyak, the owner of two trucks, voluntarily delivers things to New Jersey. It looks like there are dozens of such collection points in New York. Someone creates items, someone collects or buys what they need on their own.

Volunteer Andrei Onischuk says that now the most important thing is bulletproof vests and ammunition. “But they cannot be transferred, as this is military ammunition. That's why I bought military boots, knee pads,” says Andrei.

People from different countries offer help

Among the volunteers are people from different countries. Most Ukrainians, including Elena from Vinnitsa. She had a ticket home for February 24, the same Thursday that became bloody for Ukraine. According to her, she always spoke Russian, no one oppressed her in her homeland for the Russian language.

Maxim Vitko and his wife sewed the flag by hand, having bought yellow and blue fabric in the store. Maxim brings a flag to each of his shifts.

 

 

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