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Adriana Navarro

Cold Weather Adds Separate Challenge For Far-Traveling Refugees

On March 9, 2022, children and families arrive at the Medyka border crossing into Poland after having fled the violence in Ukraine. A large volunteer response is distributing supplies including clothes, blankets, hot food and drinks, hygiene supplies and other necessary items. (UNICEF/Joe English)

When United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Communications Specialist Joe English arrived at the Medyka border crossing in southeastern Poland on March 10, he found one of the tents intended to shelter refugees with its side panels opened, all the bedding, cots and chairs set out to dry after snow had fallen over the area.

The outpouring of support for Ukrainian refugees has been eager, but impromptu — as has been the shelter trying to keep up with a growing refugee population.

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