[AT] OT Ukraine and else

[Cecil Bearden]

Mattias:  Thank you for helping these folks.   It is good to know that 
the help we could send is going where it is needed...
Cecil
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:03 PM Mattias Kessén 
> <davidbrown950 at gmail.com <mailto:davidbrown950 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi!
>
>     Since list is slow and it's been to long since I updated I'll do
>     that know while Ylva is driving.
>     Life changes fast, back and forth. We've been on a short trip do
>     the West coast for various reasons (left a dog for breeding,
>     visiting old friends in Gothenburg and a book realese party). The
>     book realese party was last night and as it developed I was almost
>     on my way to Kiev today... Well the authors wife who is from
>     Russia but a Swedish citizen since many years were to deliver
>     ambulances, other vehicles and equipment to Kiev. When we went to
>     bed I was more or less scheduled to go with her to Ukraine today
>     since they were one driver short but in the morning someone else
>     had volunteered so maybe next time.
>     Anyway one of the units recieving this equipment has a Swede, a
>     former officer in Sweden that quit his military job to volunteer
>     for driving ambulance and educate medics at the front. I've used
>     some of your means and mine to help this guy with encrypted
>     satellite communication equipment and night vision for driving at
>     night. They can't use neither light or red cross on vehicles and
>     else since the Russians are targeting that. I've used most of your
>     funds for food medicine and rent for refugees. You've sent almost
>     1800 USD that our community and the refugees are so thankful and
>     amazed of.
>     Now not much is left about 30 USD but you have really made a
>     difference for so many people! Thank you from me and so many others.
>     The refugees has settled in well now som live at the migration
>     authorities flats here and many has found work and places to live
>     for them self sometimes with help from our network. There are only
>     four people left, one of them is Igor that hasn't got any real
>     places to live. The problem with these four are that all are
>     handicapped, old or suffering from medical issues. They are being
>     taken care of by the healthcare but there are problems with where
>     to live. If they are to be taken care of by migration they first
>     have to go to Malmö for registration. That's som 250 miles south
>     of here thereafter they will be sent to a camp in Boden more than
>     a 1000 miles north from there, there they will live until they are
>     relocated to where the Migration decides. This is not human so we
>     have been looking for a place for the four of them in Gamleby
>     (Yes, that's my nearest village). Akko who leads our network has
>     now found an apartment with separate bedrooms for the four of
>     them. I will hear more about this when Ylva and I go there for
>     sauna this evening. We have got some money from people an
>     businesses around here that we can use for helping them with rent
>     since Migration will only give the about 2 USD per day.
>     Other than that not many people are leaving Ukraine now and some
>     have gone back.
>
>     Leaving Ukraine, our part of the country are getting a drought
>     almost like 2018. It's hard to find pastures from the sheep. The
>     first cutting of hay were good but far from enough, we will need a
>     lot of rain soon if there will be a second cutting at all and
>     third we can forget about. But hey we are healthy and enjoying
>     ourselves, going to parties and concerts (Rolling stones next Sunday).
>
>     Take care
>
>     Mattias
>
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