New York is a city built by immigrants, because it continues to express its solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Mayor Eric Adams announced that the City Council will allocate $2 million dollars to a coalition of NGOs and municipal agencies to provide immediate support to refugees already in the five boroughs and to those who will arrive.
According to Manuel Castro, Commissioner of Immigration Affairs of the Mayor’s Office: “More than $2 million dollars to community groups and groups and legal services for the Ukrainian community in New York City, so that the families that have arrived, looking for refuge, have the necessary services and feel welcomed by the city”.
Manuel Castro
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With one of the largest communities of nationals from that country, New York is preparing to receive its share of the 100,000 Ukrainian refugees that the Biden administration will receive and who will arrive in the city with special needs.
In this regard, Alana Cantillo, vice president of The New York Immigration Coalition, pointed out: “The most urgent services are housing, access to food and employment and also for legal services. But we have also found, recently, that mental health programs They are very important to ensure that the traumas and the full impact of coming from a region in conflict with war are processed.
Samuel Alvarado, employee at Veselka.
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Samuel Alvarado, who works in one of the most famous Ukrainian restaurants in the five counties, located in the heart of the so-called Little Ukrainein the East Village, says he feels empathy for his colleagues who await the safe arrival of relatives: “It is a nation that needs help right now, after a severe crisis that is being experienced by the war. And when someone requests some kind of asylum, this country can calmly give it to Ukrainians having a bad time”.
Thanking New Yorkers for their help, the Ukrainian consul general recalled that his country is economically losing around $2 billion for every week that the Russian invasion continues.
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