Today I was welcomed with huge smiles and even got a hug. We started prepping the food at noon. Our main aim today was to get some protein to the plates. For 70 people, we got 10 kilograms of chicken, cleaned them, cut them, and then fried them with various spices. Since "grichka" was very popular yesterday, we made double the amount of grichka instead of rice.
Just like yesterday, we put together extra salad for everyone. In this shelter, there are both Ukrainian citizens and non-Ukrainian citizens, all of who have come from Ukraine. Everyone has different tastes but the chicken was very inclusive to all. Salad and grichka were also enough for the vegetarians.
We had a small logistics problem but were able to manage everything in time. All the trays of food were brought to the shelter in time and were still hot. There were in-house volunteers who helped distribute the food to the refugees.
I took these pictures towards the end of dinner, and you can see there were still a lot of leftovers for them to take to their rooms if they wanted to. All the volunteers speak English fluently so it is very easy to understand who wants what. We also got some boiled eggs if anyone wanted. Drinks were already present in the shelter. There was water, fruit juices, and tea to choose from.
It may sound cheesy, but doing these things make me so unbelievably happy. After people had their dinners some approached us to thank us. One family was very shocked to know I myself am a Ukrainian refugee and doing all this. So I told them they were more than welcome to lift some weight off my shoulder if they wanted to come to help us on a future mission if it ever came up LOL.
We still do not know why the catering stopped for this shelter. But we got to know that dinners would be taken care of from tomorrow. We are still going to be on standby if something goes wrong. But I am very happy that within 2 days this issue has been taken care of.
The lady who came and spoke to me yesterday about jobs brought her friends to me, too. Her friends speak fluent English and are professional coders. I was very surprised when I heard they were desperate for jobs. WHO DOESN'T WANT CODERS? But the thing is they just don't know where and how to apply. There are many skilled workers among the Ukrainians who either are shy or simply don't know who to approach, but I can help them with that too. It is safe to say that most of the Ukrainians who want to work will very soon find jobs - in or outside their fields of expertise.
The day was very productive. We discussed our options regarding creating a community initiative to tackle these issues on a basic level as volunteers. I also ended up convincing the kind lady who sponsored all this to rent out a community hall where I could bring Ukrainians to learn English or Dutch, along with providing transportation for them since buses are no longer free for us. It is going to be very expensive so she needs me to fine-tune the ideas and prepare a blueprint presentation of how everything is going to work. So I have my work cut out for the near future. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
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