Little Olena (her name is a fictional one), 5-year-old Ukrainian, suffering from leukemia, can finally go back to treatment, now that she is far from bombing and fighting. The war also compromises the possibility, for sick and frail people, of having access to the continuous and expensive therapies and treatments that the most serious diseases require.
Olena is one of them: was being treated at the Chernivtsi Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital, in the western region of Ukraine. She arrived in Italy, at the San Gerardo hospital in Monza, with the ambulance of the Italian Relief Corps of the Order of Malta (Cisom): the volunteers of the Monza Brianza and Milan groups, together with the child’s aunt, on board a ambulance and a support vehicle, left Besana Brianza, for a journey of over 1600 kilometers, crossing Slovenia and Hungary, to arrive at the Siret customs house, where thousands of people flee the war pass every day.
«The closer we got to the border with Ukraine, the more the scenario changed. Lines of Ukraine-branded cars queuing for hours at the barrier between Romania and Hungary. An interminable flow of machines », says Sergio Greco, head of institutional relations with the Municipality of Milan for Cisom. “It was a strong image, it catapulted us into the emergency and made us touch what the population, even in neighboring countries, has been facing for more than fifteen days”.
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And again: “When we arrived in Siret, before our eyes we found a sad landscape, exhausted people, cold that after hours, with the feeling of danger, between bombs and checkpoints they finally managed to reach the border together with their loved ones and four-legged companions or with only the clothes they are wearing, because the fear of returning home to take what is strictly necessary was too strong, some memories put it in a trolley and escape away as far as possible ».
On the Ukrainian border, Olena and her mother were waiting for the ambulance: the four volunteers Norman, Sergio, Carmelo and Manuele, until then complete strangers to them, they brought them to safety, away from the dangers of war. The volunteers of the Order of Malta’s Italian Relief Corps are helping the Ukrainian people by promoting a collection of basic necessities for the population throughout the Italian territory. Anyone who wants to contribute to helping people like Olena and her family can contribute to the fundraising campaign (Iban IT41D0200805038000105867301 in the name of Fondazione Cisom-Causale: Aid Ukraine).
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