‘Calls kept coming’: Ukraine’s network for the blind shelters displaced people

Andriy Kit assists Anatoliy Savelevych, who arrived at the shelter for displaced people set up inside a factory in Dnipro, Ukraine. Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind/The Guardian

Hours after Russia’s invasion started, Serhiy Kit was receiving phone calls from members of the Ukrainian Association for the Blind at his factory’s office in Dnipro.

Like everyone else in the country, Ukraine’s visually impaired were terrified when the invasion began. In their case, they had an 88-year-old association for visually impaired Ukrainians to fall back on.