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Maryna Krasnoshchok

Maryna Krasnoshchok

Ukrainian refugee advocate and co-founder of Ukrainian Voices Refugee Committee in Brussels; manages crisis accommodation for Ukrainian refugees in Belgium

Jul 1, 2026

speaker_0HOST
56:56
What else do you do?
56:57
okay shelters it's uh then the people then you then people in 2022 a lot of people arrive in belgium and we had support from belgium region yes and a lot of people who provide resources must be volunteers and only in 2023 we organize our we start our organization and organize some services and The first, I remember, maybe first year, second year, we provide shelters only for Ukrainian society.
57:34
But after, we provide for other nationalities.
57:38
Now we have nearly 500 places and only 22 places for Ukrainians.
57:47
and other places for other nationalities it's for single men and for teenagers for women and kids for LGBT for people in variable people yes and they shelters is not about safety it's not about safety sleeping it's shelters for Our opinion, yes.
58:14
First of all, it can be a nice service, complex services maybe.
58:21
We have to prepare people who stay in shelters to real life.

7 MINS LATER

speaker_0HOST
64:59
How deep is this trauma from the war and how do you really address it?

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