Red Cross helpers from the region support colleagues in Ternopil, Ukraine – 50,000 refugees have already arrived there.
. Initially it was about general topics such as first aid, then for a long time it was about Corona: Since 1992, the foreign aid working group founded by the Freiburg district association and eight local chapters of the German Red Cross (DRK) has been in contact with its partner organization in Ternopil in the Ukraine about once a month . Since the war there, communication has been going on almost around the clock – the volunteers from the region are trying everything to support their Ukrainian colleagues.
For Udo Pfistner, what is currently happening with the partners in Ukraine is very close: he spent eight years in Freiburg’s twin city of Lemberg, Lviv in Ukrainian. His wife is Ukrainian. The eldest of the two daughters and their children lived in Ukraine until recently. And many friends are still there. Pfistner is the head of the foreign aid working group, which maintains the currently very intensive contact with Ternopil. All twelve members of the working group, four of whom are currently particularly committed, work on a voluntary basis. …
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