Bulgarians from all over the country are ready to help the refugees from the border with personal transport, they also give medicines
From plates and cups to medicines and clothes to three-story houses for refugees coming from Ukraine. This is what Bulgarians offer on Facebook.
More than 20,000 people have joined the Bulgarian group “Aid for Ukrainian Refugees” in just two days. It was created to organize shelters and transportation for war refugees. But it involves not only volunteers who can provide basic necessities, shelter and transport, but also those in need. More than 1,000 publications a day are picked up by people who want to help, as well as by refugees who do not know where to go.
Pernik, Varna, Yambol, Sofia, Dupnitsa are just some of the cities that offer both a room of an apartment or a floor of a house and an entire villa.
We provide a room in our apartment, furnished with a bedroom and a rollaway bed. We can accept a mother with one or two children. Everything you need can be used – bathroom, kitchen, TV, internet. We are a retired family and we will try to help as much as we canwrites a person willing to help in the group.
I have a vacant apartment in Varna. It is suitable for a family with up to 4 children, maybe with a pet, offers another member of the Facebook group.
Volunteers are ready to accommodate refugees in their homes not only for one or two evenings, but also for an indefinite period of time. They offer to cover the bills for food, water, electricity and heating. Respondents are most often the owners of the premises, but there are also those who are themselves in the apartment. They are ready to accommodate those coming on sofas, sofa mattresses or camp beds.
Hotel owners are also ready to provide rooms. Among them is a man from Nessebar who rents out 50 studios for free, as well as another in Tsarevo who offers holiday apartments.
In addition to shelter, Bulgarians also offer work to Ukrainian refugees. I can rent up to 5 people in a restaurant in Sofia and pay for their accommodation. The salary is BGN 100 per person per day, and the food is freewrites the employer.
A stay for children in a half-day study hall is among the other offers for refugees. Children from 6 to 11 years old will be able to attend a classroom for several hours a day. So they will play and learn English with their peers.
However, the main problem is not finding shelter, as hundreds are ready to help, but providing transport. Housing offers are in different parts of the country, but there is no way for refugees to reach them on their own.
Difficulties seen before yes they came in Bulgaria,
because they do not know what documents they need to enter, and someone has to meet them.
Dozens of Ukrainian members of the Facebook group, who do not know how to reach Bulgaria, are asking for advice and help. Please tell me how to cross the border, where exactly should I seek asylum? Which city should I go to? Where are our people? pie coming from Ukraine.
My mother and aunt and I want to come to Bulgaria, my sister is waiting for us in Sofia. Please help if anyone is traveling or knows bus routes how can we get there, asks for help ethnic Bulgarian.
There are those offering transport, but among them robbers, warn volunteers. Carriers waited at the border and took very expensive transport.
I gave all the money for the trip from Odessa to Bulgaria to the carriers. We’re out of money, alerts a victim who is looking for a way to rent a hotel room for free.
The looting took place on the Ukrainian side of the border. They take 6,000 euros from the men to escape, tells an eyewitness.
In order for refugees not to give all their savings for transport,
volunteers organize a mass trip to the Isakcha border crossing
5 cars and a bus will transport all fleeing the war for free on March 1.
I can help with transport in the country or, if necessary, jump to one of the border crossings of Romania with Ukraine or Moldova for transport. If there is a need, I can look for a child car seat, offers a person willing to meet refugees with his personal car.
A problem with quarantine was reported by those wishing to transport Ukrainians. According to them, those entering from Romania are subject to quarantine if they do not provide a green certificate, which makes it difficult to transport refugees. Isn’t it nonsense in this situation? How are people taken from Romania? This is a real problem, announces willing to help.
Those who come with pets have an additional difficulty. Although many shelters offer to accept animals, food and medicine for them must also be provided.
We travel from Kiev with our little son, big dog and 2 parrots. When they take us to a camp, will they take the dog to a shelter? I can’t give it … I’m asking for shelter, things for my son and food for the dogasks for help fleeing Ukraine.
Almost 10,000 people from all over Europe, including many Bulgarians, participate in another group to help and assist those in need. It was established on February 24, the same day that Russia launched a war against Ukraine. It uploads over 600 posts a day from people willing to help.
Government portal helps those leaving Ukraine, doctors examine them for free
The Bulgarian government has launched the EU’s first single information portal to help those leaving Ukraine. It contains complete information on the requirements of border control upon entry into Bulgaria and the necessary identity documents. Signals for help and evacuation of citizens can be submitted in the platform. The portal also enables volunteers and donors to help those in need.
The visa regime for Ukrainian citizens has been liberalized by the Council of the EU since 2017 and allows a stay of 90 days in each member state for half a calendar year without a visa in the presence of biometric passports. During this period, they can receive official refugee or humanitarian status.
Deputy Prime Minister Asen Vassilev announced on Sunday that legislation is currently being prepared to make it easier for Ukrainian refugees to start a business, which we will accept. They will also be given the opportunity to take loans.
Campaigns to raise food, clothing and blankets, as well as volunteers – doctors or shelters for victims in Ukraine – have begun across the country.
Approximately 368,000 people have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries since the Russian invasion began yesterday, and the number continues to rise. During the same period, Poland received more than 156 thousand people, according to data from the Polish service.
Essential goods, such as new clothes and shoes, bed linen, warm blankets, hygiene materials are collected by the Bulgarian Red Cross. The organization also turns to Bulgarian manufacturers for help with tents, heaters, lanterns, batteries and generators.
All the victims of the war and refugees will be examined free of charge by the doctors at the Sofia University Hospital “St. Anna ”. Volunteer doctors who speak Ukrainian or Russian are sought by the National Association of Volunteers in our country. Doctors who agree to examine refugees if necessary can register on the association’s website. Volunteers who wish to work in the field or can provide shelter can also enroll.
A temporary center for assistance and coordination of those arriving from Ukraine has already been opened in the regional administration in Varna, the regional governor of Varna Blagomir Kotsev told 24 Chassa. Yesterday he met at the bus station another bus with evacuated women and children from Odessa. About 300 more people are expected in the coming days, he said.
Up to 2,000 people will be able to be accommodated in hotels around Varna. Three of them are now ready to accept refugees for free for an indefinite period of time.
Housing in Dobrich has been prepared for another 15 refugees. They are expected to arrive today, said the director of the Regional Council of the Bulgarian Red Cross, Dr. Artyun Erinozov. He appealed for food and water.
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