Both Ikano Bank Polska, Mustel, TerGo, Wonga, Best S.A., Netguru and ANG liable Finances and Individual Contributors responded to our Foundation's call for support for the Podlaskie Volunteers' Team. We have managed to pool material aid in the form of water and food as well as financial support for POPH workers. What's going on at the border today? What's the situation?
Since February 2024, Podlaskie Voluntary Humanitarian Aid, to which our foundation provides support and assistance, has been acting as an association. The squad is presently operating on the basis of circumstantial roles and tasks to improve the operation. Among them are those liable for intervention in the forest, supervision and organization of collections, monitoring of warehouse status, and communication issues. Volunteers besides aid the association.
In the area of the border, people working permanently with POPH and volunteers who come to us from different places, in fact from all over Poland. They are frequently people who return to us regularly erstwhile a period or erstwhile all 2 months. They have the same sensitivity as us and a akin view of the world. We are besides approached by people from abroad. We already have quite a few experience as a team, but we are inactive training, developing to make the assistance we supply as effective as possible and besides to know how to measure the situation we have on the ground.
– says Karol Cichocki, associate of the board of POPH, journalist.
What's going on at the border?
In the last 4th and weeks, the squad POPH is seeing a large increase in calls for help. The fact that people trying to cross the border is confirmed by authoritative Border defender statistic all time; Since the beginning of May there have been more than 8,000 attempts of illegal passage, in April almost 3,4,000.
Many of these people are victims of violence, which they experience on the Belarusian side, unfortunately, besides on the Polish side. The people we meet have deep wounds, which is frequently the consequence of contact with razor wire. And these are wounds that request to be treated on the spot. We have the skills to do this, just late almost our full squad has received training from the Qualified First Aid at the Rescue Center. It has not changed that frequently those people who ask for aid are exhausted. This is due to the fact that they do not have access to food, medicines, clean drinking water; they drink water from swamp, which frequently causes tummy poisoning and consequently dehydration
– says Eliza Kowalczyk, associate of the board of the POPH Association.
Thanks to Mustel's support, the squad received an AED defibrillator with the essential equipment: stasis and rescue kit. Legal protection – increasingly frequent request of refugees
People from POPH taking part in rescue operations are observing another change. More and more people are asking for global protection in Poland.
We have legal persons who support us. We besides note that more and more of these proposals are being adopted. At the same time, this does not change the fact that pushbacks, or exports, proceed to occur. And unfortunately, that hasn't changed.
– adds Eliza Kowalczyk.
As for people looking for a way to a better life in public broadcasting, we inactive see the communicative that they are mostly young men. However, in fresh years, people operating in POPH have had quite a few contacts with families, with children, with minors. As Eliza Kowalczyk emphasizes, it does not substance whether it is simply a young man or a female or a household with children. POPH helps all man who needs it.
We thank all companies that have provided financial and material support to POPH in fresh years: Best S.A, Ikano Bank Polska, Mustel, TerGo, Wong and ANG liable Financesand many Individual donors Among others, Viktor Schmidt (on behalf of Netguru). With this support, POPH can proceed its activities and aid people on the way.
POPH squad received financial assistance for the day-to-day activities and material aid in the form of: AED defibrillator with full equipment, hygiene, water, lyophilised foods, tuna cans.
Wet wipes – essential for each action. 
Lyophilized food works best
