More than 2.5 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Poland since Russia's aggression to their country started (Updated: 10.04.2022), and, according to the Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, there are some 300,000 in the capital city alone. It is an incredible number of people to welcome and support, so how are Polish people dealing with it?
We hear today from Anhelina, an European with a Ukrainian heart, that is volunteering since the refugee crisis started. She'll tell us a bit more about her work and how the population at large is participating to an unprecedented mobilisation.
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Speakers in the episode:
Anhelina Pryimak is the President of the BETA Poland Association. She is also a MA student of European Studies at the University of Warsaw. Alumna of several MEU conferences with a wide international network and good connections with polish student organisations. She has also engaged in projects organized by the Budapest European Agora Team, Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies, Demostene Centro Studi per la promozione dello Sviluppo Umano and others.
Cătălina Ceban holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Warsaw in the field of International Relations. She currently follows a Master’s degree program in Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Warsaw being connected with this topic by participating in different events as the CyberSec Forum, the Warsaw Security Forum, and activating as a member of the Women in International Security network. Recently she started to activate as a senior officer at the Moldovan National Focal Point Europol. Out of the security field, she is also very interested in the EU as a concept. This can be proved by her activity as Vice President for the Bringing Europeans Together Association in Poland, founder and Vice President for the students’ society named “My dla Europy”.