Humanitarian aid has always played a major role in the 1990 partnership between the municipality of Pullach, Baryschivka Rayon and the city of Berezan in Ukraine. And so, in the past 30 years, several dozen aid transports have made the 2,000-kilometer journey, loaded with all sorts of useful things such as bicycles, medical equipment for hospitals or solar collectors for an old people’s and nursing home, to make life a little easier for the people there to facilitate. Another aid transport arrived from Pullach with 3.8 tons of aid supplies on Monday evening, and a look at parts of the load shows the dramatic situation of the Ukrainian population, which was hit by the Russian war of aggression: medicines, food, hygiene articles, baby equipment, clothing, flashlights.
The donated flashlights are intended to enable people fleeing the bombs in basements to find their way around in the event of a power failure, explains Barbara Kammerer-Fischer, deputy chair of the partnership association. In Baryschivka, in particular, there was heavy fighting, and several towns were razed to the ground, she reports.
On Sunday night, seven members of the Pullach volunteer fire brigade set out in four vehicles in the direction of the Ukrainian border, where the handover took place. This included an ambulance and ambulance totaling $40,000 donated by the Lions Club. At the municipal council meeting on Tuesday evening, applause erupted when Mayor Susanna Millennium (Greens) reported on the successful course of the recent aid transport. According to this blueprint, further transports are possible, she said.
84 people from Ukraine are currently living in Pullach households through the partnership association, and some have already registered their residence in Pullach. Since Tuesday it has also been clear that refugees with a Ukrainian ID card can open an account with the district and city savings bank. However, the head of town hall is also looking to the time after the end of the war. The partnership association should use the donations received in a targeted manner, but not spend everything at once. “We still need funds to rebuild the country,” she said.
In the meantime, the number of war refugees housed in the Burg Schwaneck training center is gradually decreasing, mostly mothers with their children. A total of around 70 people were admitted and cared for in the training center of the district youth ring, says its director Andreas Bedacht. The gaps in the house were used, but seminars and events will start again next week and the house is full. In the meantime, many people from Ukraine have been accommodated in private households in Pullach and the surrounding area. Nobody will be thrown out, and he also promised the district office that 20 young people would be allowed to stay until the end of April.