An Army veteran and community councillor has spoken about her experience of travelling to the Ukrainian-Polish border to aid refugees. Hannah Jarvis, a community councillor from Abergavenny, went to the border to help a charity deliver medical aid and plans to return to continue the effort.
Hannah, a community councillor in Llanfoist Fawr and Govilon as well as Office Manager for a member of the Senedd, has worked with charity Bridge to Unity to fundraise and gather medical equipment to deliver to take to the Ukrainian-Polish border to Zintegrowana Sluzba Ratownicza (ZSR), a not-for-profit organisation based in Poland. She served in the Welsh Royal Regiment for 12 years, serving in Iraq in 2007.
"I have a bit of experience with this kind of thing, having served, and more recently last year with the evacuation from Afghanistan, I helped some interpreters come over with Bridge to Unity. We helped people come over and sent aid out and we helped people when they were over here set up with the local authorities, so things like housing, jobs, English language lessons and that type of things," Hannah told WalesOnline.
