Ukrainian refugees living in Nottingham have spoken out about how they want to do something “useful” in the city to say thank you to those that have helped them since fleeing the war. Now they are fundraising for their hometown whilst navigating their way through a different country.
Using an unused ward as a collection point at the City Hospital, since March, head organiser Ann Vickers, 55 and from Woodthorpe, has been collecting donations. With lorries being sent to Ukraine on a weekly basis, Ann has met many refugees who have fled to Nottingham from the on-going Russian invasion in Ukraine, including 36-year-old Yevheniia Myronenko.
Yevheniia Myronenko has had an education in architecture and has previously worked as an art teacher and journalist. Now Yevheniia, whose family remain in Ukraine, is putting her energy into helping organise a charity dinner with famous Ukrainian chef, Yevhen Klopotenko, who won Ukraine’s MasterChef in 2015.
