How Ukrainian Refugees Are Being Helped in San Diego

A friend in San Diego the other day was talking about a relative who is living in Germany and is taking in refugees from Ukraine.

Several million Ukrainians have left their country since the Russian invasion began, fleeing a war that has already killed reportedly tens of thousands there fellow citizens, many brutally by Russian soldiers. Fortunately there are millions of other people in other countries in Europe and America who are helping and housing all these refugees from Ukraine.

And in San Diego we are seeing it happen up close, with hundreds of refugees from Ukraine, mostly women and children, arriving at the San Ysidro port of entry and coming into the U.S.   They are part of what the federal government says could be at least 100,000 Ukrainians allowed into the country because of the war.

Thankfully there are people on this side of the border helping them. The people at a church in Chula Vista, Calvary Chapel, are among them.

As reported by the San Diego Union Tribune, the church has become a way station for Ukraine refugees, where they can get food, showers and shelter for a couple of days before moving on to live with family or friends in the U.S. A woman named Olga telling the Union Tribune, “We’ve been living in fear. Now we can relax.”

No one knows how long the war will last. But while the U.S. is helping Ukraine with military arms, many individual Americans are helping with their hearts and hands.

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