Tag: refugees

The news portal theguardian.com wrote about Ukrainians, exiled from their homes by war and poverty, who seek refuge in neighbouring Poland. In Warsaw, refugees find assistance at ‘Ukrainian World’, an aid centre run by the Open Dialogue Foundation.

Gazeta Wyborcza wrote about volunteers from the Open Dialogue Foundation and the threat of closure of the centre for aid for Ukrainian immigrants.

Horbów-Kolonia and Bezwola are situated in the Lublin region. The names of these villages are known to the majority of Ukrainians who fled to Poland. These are the places where gifts obtained during collections held in the ‘Ukrainian World’ centre, are taken.

– Sometimes they come with a bundle containing all their belongings, sometimes they arrive in good cars, with cash – that’s how Mateusz Kramek from the Open Dialogue Foundation describes newcomers addressing ‘Ukrainian World’, in an interview with a Newsweek journalist.

On Mondays and Wednesdays, between 1:30-4:30 PM, the Ukrainian World centre (Warsaw, 63 Nowy Swiat Street) will host pro bono legal and civil consultations for refugees. Legal consultations will be provided by Ms. Alla Maievska.

Natalia Panchenko of the Open Dialogue Foundation spoke on the Uwaga! programme about the many hours of queuing at the Department for Foreigners’ Affairs office and the corruption and bureaucracy faced by foreigners in Poland.

On 18-20 February 2015, the Open Dialogue Foundation’s delegation participated in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s (OSCE PA) Winter Meeting in Vienna. One of the three annual meetings focused on the rights of migrants and refugess.

Tomasz Czuwara of the Open Dialogue Foundation talked for TVP Bydgoszcz about the realities faced in Poland by Ukrainians emigrating from the East.

The spokesman for the Open Dialogue Foundation, Tomasz Czuwara, commented for the dziennikpolski24.pl portal, on the situation of the Ukrainians seeking refugee status in Poland.

Problems faced by civilians at the heart of the war zone were discussed by guests from Ukraine, Poland and the UK during the VIII Europe-Ukraine Forum in Łódź.

A pożyteczni.pl programme shown on the TVP Info channel was devoted to the Open Dialogue Foundation, during which we talked about the help we provide to refugees from Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

As Dziennik Polski reports, since the beginning of 2014, nearly 2.100 Ukrainians have filed applications for refugee status in Poland. To date, no one has been awarded such a status.

TVP 2 channel aired a report on refugees forced to leave their homes after the annexation of the Crimea by Russia. Amongst them, there are many Crimean Tatars who found refuge in places such as Drohobych.

On 30th August, the Act of 26 June 2014 on Amending the Act on Granting Foreigners Protection on the Territory of the Republic of Poland and Certain Other Acts came into force.

More and more signals are reaching our Foundation from Ukrainian nationals who are being denied refugee status or consent for tolerated stay in Poland.