A vintage rally driver made a week-long round trip to Poland to pick up a Ukrainian family she is hosting after becoming frustrated with the British government’s sponsorship scheme.
British vintage rally driver Barbara Shooter took it on herself to pick up a Ukrainian family she was matched with as she waited for their visas
The mother and son took cover in a cellar when the invasion began 48 days ago before moving to a location in the countryside and registering with Opora, which is helping Ukrainians to rebuild their lives in the UK. ‘But she wants her son to have a future. It was a terrifying prospect leaving everything behind and not knowing what they were coming to, but she took that leap of faith and we started off the sponsorship programme.
Barbara, 65, said: ‘With the documents going through I didn’t want them to have to sleep in a school hall for ages. I thought, “I can do this, I can fetch them” and I could take some aid over as well. They dropped the aid off in Przemyśl with a Ukrainian man heading over the border around 14km to the east, restocking with food at a cash and carry to help him fill up his van. Henry flew back to the UK after two days.
‘The first night when we were having something to eat Alex said how quiet it was without the shelling, air raid sirens and noise. ‘Alex is treating it like a big adventure and his mother is in constant touch with relatives in Ukraine, as it’s still a very anxious time for her. He had been doing distance learning and at one point it was cancelled because of shelling, which shows how awful the situation is where they have come from.
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