JCC Krakow: "Please Help Support Refugees"
As the largest local Jewish organization in Poland, JCC Krakow is a key provider of services, a strategic partner, and a convener, having already helped directly and via our partners over ten thousand Ukrainians over the last six weeks. We are operating in Krakow, on the Ukrainian side of the Ukraine-Poland border, and inside Ukraine and do not differentiate between Jews and non-Jews when providing support.
Our JCC continues to function 7 days a week, 12 hours a day as a distribution point for food, medicine, hygienic supplies, toys, and clothing that we have received and purchased. Between 300 and 500 Ukrainians a day come in to take what they need and are met by our Ukrainian speakers who welcome them and offer assistance. So far ~15,000 Ukrainians have received over 36 tons of necessary supplies in our building. We have also begun offering on site meals and 250 free meals a day are served in our building.
We are sending truckloads of supplies to other refugee centers in Krakow, to the border, and to numerous other points, including hospitals inside Ukraine. We have recently arranged the transport of 16 semi-trailer trucks full of food into Ukraine from Lille, France including food to Bucha after the Russian
We are currently directly housing and feeding ~230 Ukrainians, Jews and non-Jews, in hotel rooms and apartments in Krakow we have secured for that purpose. We call and visit them regularly and help them with their daily needs including cash. Over 3,000 hotel room nights have been provided.
We have outfitted and opened a mother and child safe space with a local partner that provides day care for 25 young children, and Polish and English classes, psychological counseling, and job training for their mothers in a warm, cozy environment.
We have begun supporting the “Closet of Good” distribution center, the largest center of its type in southern Poland, having distributed 170,000 items of clothing to 27,000 Ukrainian refugees.
We are funding the transport of 1,000 women and children over 12 days from Mariupol and Kramatorsk to Poland via Lviv.
We have partnered with a local Ukrainian organization and are funding 12 full time psychologists who are providing 1400 hours a month of therapy in 5 locations in Krakow.
We have partnered with four local NGOs to run and equip one of Krakow’s central refugee hubs. Staffed by two dozen Ukrainian speakers, it serves hundreds daily and has on site housing for 80 refugees and we provide food, laundry and a full array of social services.
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