Readers of these news updates will remember the group of Ukrainian refugees and their animals who have found temporary shelter on an old collective farm near Saveni. They are men, women and children with a large proportion of deaf people amongst them. Because the men are deaf and/or mute and exempt from military service they were allowed to leave Ukraine. Some of them drove their families across the border in their own vehicles. Thinking ahead, they brought spare parts with them. This means that they are able to be drivers for one another and other refugees who Agents of Change are in contact with. Trips for groceries and taking people where they need to go become possible – and they are delighted to have something to do. Otherwise being a refugee becomes a life of limbo, worrying about family back in Ukraine and wondering where the refugee families will end up. So cars with Ukrainian number plates make journeys in Romania with fuel bought with Agents of Change funds.
