Eastern Ukraine: bicycles to deliver aid and hope amidst COVID-19
“When quarantine restrictions were introduced in the country to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, we saw a sharp increase of calls to our hotline”, recalls Yevhen Kaplin, head of the humanitarian mission of the Ukrainian NGO Proliska.
“For example, a social worker from Travneve would call and say: ‘I need to visit 10 older persons who live near me, but there is another elderly person whose house is in Gladosovo, 6 kilometres away, and it takes half a day to only go back and forth. What should I do?’ – This is not an isolated case. In eastern Ukraine many frontline villages are far apart,” he says.
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Eastern Ukraine: bicycles to deliver aid and hope amidst COVID-19
“When quarantine restrictions were introduced in the country to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, we saw a sharp increase of calls to our hotline”, recalls Yevhen Kaplin, head of the humanitarian mission of the Ukrainian NGO Proliska.
“For example, a social worker from Travneve would call and say: ‘I need to visit 10 older persons who live near me, but there is another elderly person whose house is in Gladosovo, 6 kilometres away, and it takes half a day to only go back and forth. What should I do?’ – This is not an isolated case. In eastern Ukraine many frontline villages are far apart,” he says.
©Proliska Ukraine. All rights reserved. Licensed to the European Union under conditions.