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Maranie is an independent photographer, videographer and journalist currently based in Portland, Oregon. Her work focuses on human rights and social justice issues, social movements, displacement and the impact(s) of conflict on individuals and...
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Inside the Manej Sports Arena several hundred cots are encircled by stadium seating and a decrepit running track. Once a place where athletes practiced and competed, the sports facility is now a temporary home for between 600 and 800 refugees, most of who are Romani. All have fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion and ongoing bombardment of civilian cities and settlements.
Moldova’s authorities have largely separated Roma refugees from ethnic Ukrainians; some accuse the authorities of racism while others inside that the separation in an attempt to “prevent tensions between the two ethnicities and better provide for their specific needs”.
500 meals from World Central Kitchen partner Cafeneaua din Gratiesti are delivered daily to feed those at Manej.
Two young Romani girls play and color at a designated "safe space" for refugee children inside the Manej Sports Arena. Once a place where athletes practiced and competed, the sports facility is now a temporary home for between 600 and 800 refugees, most of who are Romani. All have fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion and ongoing bombardment of civilian cities and settlements.
Moldova’s authorities have largely separated Roma refugees from ethnic Ukrainians; some accuse the authorities of racism while others inside that the separation in an attempt to “prevent tensions between the two ethnicities and better provide for their specific needs”.
500 meals from World Central Kitchen partner Cafeneaua din Gratiesti are delivered daily to feed those at Manej.
Patria Lukoil, a former cinema turned shelter for refugees in Chisinau, Moldova, has one room dedicated for Ukrainian refugees who have fled with their cats.
Hundreds of people gather in the rain outside of a school turned resource center in Odesa, Ukraine.
Here they will be registered and helped with an array of needs. People can have a warm meal, or get clothing or other items they may not have been able to take with them when they fled, get assistance with housing or transportation to another destination, or receive medical care.
Most have arrived by train and fled continued fighting in the Donbass, Kharkiv, Mykolayiv, and villages in the east.
World Central Kitchen partner Crossfood delivers 500 meals daily.
Hundreds of people gather in the rain outside of a school turned resource center in Odesa, Ukraine.
Here they will be registered and helped with an array of needs. People can have a warm meal, or get clothing or other items they may not have been able to take with them when they fled, get assistance with housing or transportation to another destination, or receive medical care.
Most have arrived by train and fled continued fighting in the Donbass, Kharkiv, Mykolayiv, and villages in the east.
World Central Kitchen partner Crossfood delivers 500 meals daily.
Here they will be registered and helped with an array of needs. People can have a warm meal, or get clothing or other items they may not have been able to take with them when they fled, get assistance with housing or transportation to another destination, or receive medical care.
Most have arrived by train and fled continued fighting in the Donbass, Kharkiv, Mykolayiv, and villages in the east.
Hearts, Ukranian flags and "Our Ukraine" are common themes in artwork done by Romani refugee children. The wall of hand drawn art is displayed at a designated "safe space" for children inside the Manej Sports Arena. Once a place where athletes practiced and competed, the sports facility is now a temporary home for between 600 and 800 refugees, most of who are Romani. All have fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion and ongoing bombardment of civilian cities and settlements.
Moldova’s authorities have largely separated Roma refugees from ethnic Ukrainians; some accuse the authorities of racism while others inside that the separation in an attempt to “prevent tensions between the two ethnicities and better provide for their specific needs”.
500 meals from World Central Kitchen partner Cafeneaua din Gratiesti are delivered daily to feed those at Manej.
A family of Ukrainian refugees walk past the entrance of Patria Lukoil, a former cinema turned emergency shelter currently housing 300 refugees in Chisinau, Moldova on March 11, 2022.
“These kids have experienced immense stress and trauma. They’ve been displaced. They don’t know if there is a home waiting for them. The most comforting and reassuring things in life have been pulled from under their feet. Their home, their family, their father who stayed back there. And children are very good at sensing the atmosphere around them. So even if the parents are trying to stay strong for the children they realize when the mother is terrified because there are shootings and explosions.”
“We have come upon some patients where this kind of tipped them over, people who were doing well with medication and this kind of threw them off. But many people—I would say almost all—are with no background of mental health problems but have developed stress, night terrors, panic attacks and difficulties sleeping. Parents, they try to stay strong for their children but they report that they can’t fall asleep at night. And they want assistance with sleeping pills and things like that.”
“All of these women…they left behind their sons or their husbands. They don’t have any communication with them. They don’t know what’s going on, if they’re alive or dead. There is a lot of fear and a lot stress.”
“It’s an entire population who has either stayed back and is under the constant stress and terror of war or those who packed their lives into one suitcases and started traveling between all of these foreign places. I think we will see in the near future all of these post trauma effects. Any plan rehabilitating these refugees must include a strong psychological structure; I don’t know how you do that for an entire population.”
Yesterday a team of “clown doctors“ from Israel @dreamdoctorsproject spent time with children and adults at a shelter for Ukrainian refugees in Chisinau, Moldova. They provided laughs, a learned and empathetic ear and medical care.
As people prioritize basic safety and survival, the mental health toll of this w
A Ukranian family eats dinner [provided with the support of World Central Kitchen] at Patria Lukoil, a former cinema turned shelter for refugees in Chisinau, Moldova on March 11, 2022.
While the largest number of refugees have fled to Poland the highest per capita have arrived at the border of Moldova. The small, poor but generous country of less than 3 million people has so far received over 105,000 people as the flood of people fleeing Russian violence continues.
A Team Humanity volunteer carries a young child into the Patria Lukoil shelter in Chisinau, Moldova. Over 75 women and children were evacuated from Milolaiv, Ukraine; nearly 10 hours later they are safely in Chisinau.
A young Romani boy walks the outskirts of an indoor track inside the Manej Sports Arena. Once a place where athletes practiced and competed, the sports facility is now a temporary home for between 600 and 800 refugees, most of who are Romani. All have fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion and ongoing bombardment of civilian cities and settlements.
500 meals from World Central Kitchen partner Cafeneaua din Gratiesti are delivered daily to feed those at Manej.