Some places we visited in Poland with Roma refugees.
Waplewo: 85 Roma, out of which 46 children. From Lutsk, Ukraine.
Krzyżowice: 12 Roma of which 6 children. From Odessa. They want to go to Lithuania where they have relatives.
Wasilków: 102 Roma out of which 56 children. From Wolynië.
Currently no help from the Polish state.
Not surprising, unfortunately.
Officially, anyone from the Ukraine is welcome in the EU. Well, unless you are Rom or are amongst the foreigners who are in Ukraine, many of them from Africa ort the Middle East.
Bad.
A reportage in Lviv’s railway station with the plight of Roma, often because they have no identity papers, a problem in the Ukraine.
Roma refugees from the Ukraine face additional hurdles and discrimination.
Bad.
Hundreds of Ukrainian Roma have found temporary asylum in the community of the Apostolic Church in Pavlovce nad Uhom in eastern Slovakia.
Many Roma from the Ukraine are facing discrimination when fleeing Ukraine.
Bad.
A bus driver from the Czech Republic refused to take a Romni and child stuck at the Slovak border.
The pastoral centre has become a refuge for Ukrainian Roma who crossed to the border crossing in Veľké Slemence into Slovakia. The pastor of the Apostolic Church, Marek Gombár, brings them with volunteers to Pavloviec nad Uhom, about 17 kilometres away.
In a predominantly Roma village close to the Ukrainian border in Slovakia, Roma help the arriving refugees.
A Roma pastor in Uszka, right at the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, took care of an extended Roma family with 7 women and 20 children.
Three Ukrainian Romnja, Tetjana, Natalia and Zola are organising humanitarian help in the Ukraine out of a bomb shelter and with the help of others in Berlin.
Many links in the article worth following.
The openhearted welcome of Poles towards Ukrainians stops when they are Roma. Several of them are stuck in Młyny on the Polish-Ukrainian Border.
We have reports of others in Przemyśl.
Numbers are unclear but rather small according to our informations.
A YouTube video of the border crossing into Hungary. The author accuses Roma to have created chaos by overtaking the line.
Bad.
Roma are joining the movement helping refugees from the Ukraine.
Good!
We have had the first reports of Roma fleeing the war in the Ukraine and arriving in Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia. At this stage it is impossible to say how many, but we are gathering more information.
Rroma Contact Point – 27.02.2022.
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