05/03/2022
And one more 2am night. 1st thing this morning we get a message from the train station food center, and women's and chidren's shelter that they are basically empty. We run recon, and indeed they went through a few thousands $ in just one day. We are told they served around 2,000 people yesterday. So we run to a local "SAMS CLUB" and load up 3 vans full of food and water. Spend a few hours helping answer a thousand questions. Around 6pm a young lady comes up and says "I am going back to Kiev, my brother and father are fighting the war, I've been in Poland for 3 weeks, and now I want to go back home". She has a 6pm train to the border, and then 11pm connection to Kiev. The train to the border is 2 hrs late, and she is risking missing her connection, meaning she is stranded for 24+ hrs in Poland without a place to stay, which is a perfect human trafficking possibility. She is crying. A few minutes later another young lady with this same exact story. A day earlier we had the same thing happen, so what do we do? I tell my driver and buddy William Robyn to get the van warmed up - we are driving 250 km back to the border. I run up to the platform where the late train passengers are waiting, and offer a ride in our van. Big mistake. Dozens of women jump forward, but we can only take 7 passengers. Tough call to chose who gets to go. These 7 are ecstatic. We hit the road, and I get a call that there a woman at the border, who need to get to Krakow to catch a flight to Ireland tomorrow morning. We drop the 7 at the border train station, pick the lady at the border, and head back to Krakow. Tomorrow we have to move a family from one refugee center to another because of some issues. Hoping to catch a quick tour of Auschwitz on the way, and more good deeds. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdG9R82vJjj/