Every Saturday at 2:00 p.m., hundreds of people gather near Kyiv’s central railway station. Some come for a hot meal, some for medicine, and some simply for the opportunity to talk without fear of judgement. There are no document checks or unnecessary questions here. If a person has come, it means they need help. This is how the volunteer initiative "Without Home", founded in 2019, has been operating for many years. Today, it is much more than weekly distributions of hot meals, medicines and other essential items.
Tetiana Pechonchyk grew up in a village contaminated by the Chornobyl fallout, where her parents measured mushrooms with a dosimeter before putting them on the table. She organised her first protest as a schoolgirl - calling on her classmates to boycott the unpaid fieldwork in the collective farm fields - and has never really stopped since
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