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dwindling reserves. talks with the i, m. f are expected later this month. those you top stories, the stream is coming up. next we will see you a bit later. uh by ah ah, hello, i semi ok welcome to the stream. since mid february we have seen millions of ukrainian streaming out of the country fleeing from war. the cranium with disabilities. this journey is challenging and sometimes impossible. we start episode today with

a sexy general the european disability. for 2.7000000 people will be in your crime. i suppose to warn them all wrong. it shall escape for my people to stay there on the bombing. we don't care medication. every patient grasp or isn't mabel, they, they're all underneath this from a nation. this is the moment should stay for people with the guy we have to support them today on the street, what's a poet? ukrainians with disabilities need joining our conversation. we have eula, we have milan. we have and i was good to have all of you on board. you're welcome to the screen. please introduce yourself. try stream audience. i mean helio for

choke and disability rights activist, and had to. they are clean and organization of people as disability as 5 fluoride. and now i'm trying to coordinate emergency response by our organization and to international thought partners for your credit disability. thank you for joining us, julia. hello, milan. get to see you. please introduce yourself to our international view as well . i'm sure it up our director of inclusion europe and i will go see organization representing people this intellectual disabilities and their families in for the 9 year up in countries including crane, iowa. thank you for joining the string today. please introduce yourself to our audience. thanks for having me. i'm a disability activist. i'm supporting you leanne, fight for right and evacuating people with disabilities through my organization.

the partnership for inclusive disaster strategies as their ukraine crisis focal point. so like this is a master watch conversation, because if you've been watching the evacuation from ukraine, this is a part of the evacuations that we haven't been spending enough time on youtube. if you're a new chief right now, the comment section is right here. be part of our conversation and we're going to was talking a little bit earlier on. she said as a video few hours ago, un loading. what will you nodding, what did you recognize in her description of the situation that ukrainians with disabilities currently find themselves? and i think i was 1st nodding her emphasis of the scale. the people with disabilities are not a nice summer graphics. we make up 15 percent at the very least of the global population. and then ukraine. we know we have at least 2700000 people with disabilities who need aid in this the amount of crisis. so it really is

disappointing. we'll talk about more to see how these, these aren't being accommodated and treated as normal as common as a part of the human condition. we're talking about a range of people with disabilities. so not as, as ada was saying. you can't just talk about a nice area of society in ukraine, milan, for instance, i know that you speak, can you support a lot of people with disabilities and youth tend to some pictures of people disabilities in the 1st few days, the 1st few weeks of the ukraine war, i'm going to show some of these pictures. can you explain what we're seeing a why we're seeing it go ahead, milan? well, those are pictures from families who care for their sons and daughters live intellectual disabilities. there are some 260000 people that have intellectual disabilities in crane. the organization we work with represents $14000.00

families and these are be blue. take care of there are, there's visibility is, is, are people who cannot go to the normal bomb shelters either because those are physically and accessible or because it is so hard for people with autism with some other some other disabilities to just be in these very crowded places, so these people, they are sheltering in their bathtubs in their basement, in sellers. and those are the pictures that you can see from the 1st weeks of war. sharon in case of course, if we've been watching the news, we know that something in place can be incredibly dangerous. you. leah, i am wondering. i'm from your perspective. if you look back from the past few weeks past couple of months and you look at the support that's been given by the government, you can in government for people with disabilities in ukraine. what have you seen? how many summit up it's

a very difficult question. bought 1st of all, if we don't have a credit involved with ration, oregon says default. and then excellence of our government, i think now is a more coordinated than in the beginning bought. i assume that if was this of people with disabilities of our community, with our to but by our government before or when we were trying to be more profile now we would have but the situation for your credit on this disability you can you give us one example that shows that maybe that could have been better preparation. for example, when we talk about accessibility of bomb shelters or about support the support group or full in peers or social workers in the

beginning or like before, we as the goodness ation, john was trying to collect information from different countries from international practices and me credit this information into b could provide this information for our authorities and responds to both state officials. but we didn't have such a possibility. i me, i may just the morning up on. yeah, absolutely. on the you go 1st milan you go 2nd. yeah, i was going to say, i think the more interesting angle at this point is not only what could the ukrainian government have done to make this easier? what, what could humanitarian organizations doing now today, not in the past, not would have, could have sort of to ensure that ukrainians with disabilities can get to

a safe place. and the fact is that most of these humanitarian organizations are acting as if disability was invented the day ukraine gotten back, gotten paid it. they're not prepared. they don't have wheelchair accessible vehicles. they don't know how to make shelters accessible for people with disabilities. julia and i heard just last week at the un protection cluster meeting, let 9 get percent of existing shelters are inaccessible to port mobility, disability. and that's just unacceptable. and i said, how would you fix that? what's the easy fix? we're making shelters accessible if we're talking about now the needs right now, what would you do? well, what we're doing in our organization is ensuring that we're building in these needs from the beginning of our operations. and we're showing that it truly isn't that hard. julia's organization and mine are very low resource, but we're run by people with disabilities who understand these logistical needs and

know what should build them. and i think it's a really a lack of expertise in humanitarian organizations and a lack of will and understanding of what used to be done. i don't think it's a true lack of can house. yes, milan go ahead. i just wanted to, to add to know that there is also another and other part of this picture. and it is a huge number of people with disabilities who are in institutions in segregated gary institutions in crane. and of course, that was already a problem before the war, as was the general lack of community based services and the lack of resources for them such as person was suspense, and andy sanders and similar services, but the population of the institutions. they cheers, and i think starting from 30000 upwards, they are very different numbers as isn't very difficult situation themselves. some

of these places are being got great that some of them we've heard have been directly attack dollar or taken hostage by your russian forces. so that, that creates in itself a very, very grave situation and challenge for the, for protection of life, of the people in dose and those institutions. one unit unit, i think i have a really unique aspect of this price. so after the fact that not only are people with disabilities, it really impact it. but the fact that russian forces are, in fact, just the civically targeting locations like hospitals, like psychiatric facilities and other care, which makes it even more unforgivable, that this isn't such a focus of the humanitarian. let me just give her a guidance, you know, let me just bring in one more, one more voice, why we're talking about institutions, because certainly in ukraine, sometimes people with disabilities find themselves in institutional care rather

than in community care. i just want to bring in the voice a car, alina cusick, talks about the special needs of people with disabilities to find yourself in institutions. at this very moment in ukraine is yes, people with disabilities and older people faced serious risks in armed completes, ukraine is no exception. for those who manage to flee, they faced challenges in getting basic services, including accessible housing. orders particularly concerning is the fate of thousands who live in residential institutions and care homes in ukraine. they are segregated from their communities and cannot easily access shelters safe evacuations. and so many tarianna systems. it's fundamental that any action taken by governments and humanitarian organizations to assist people affected by the conflict, includes people with disabilities and older people and addresses their specific

needs. you know, go ahead. yeah, i also wanted to stress of that issue. and to the case of people of his intellect and psycho social disability. and even today we have 240 of 40 people as crated from the korea gym to most safe area. and to be a set team was looking for people who can provide some basic might to call nate care and like, and nobody and nobody from international beacons or national monitor an organization can help us to visit. so you are a god and also this people they are really restrict, wanted to talk about across the board and about to find personal assistant caregiver and we don't have

appropriate data regarding recreation and sedation all for the people. okay. do you really think the international organizations who are helping ukrainians who don't have disabilities are unable to help you? koreans who do or are they just taking the easy route out? this is really horrible question to ask you out of what i'm going to ask you anyway, because we have to be really, we have to be really candid. we saw the pictures that milan showed us. we seen some of the images that people are struggling with right now with disabilities in ukraine. let's be super honest. is it because they can't or because they won't. i think it's absolutely explicitly clear that it's because they want, you know, uli is organization fight her right. and my organization to organizations which have never worked in conflict sounds never worked, and evacuations were able to set up this operation, evacuating people with disabilities in a matter of one week. and so far we've evacuated $583.00 ukrainians with

disabilities. so we're showing that with very little funding was very little capacity that it is possible. so it's completely unthinkable that organizations like the red cross, like those in the un protection cluster, can't be doing the same thing with the hundreds of millions of dollars that they've raised over the past month. and a yeah, milan you go 1st colossal you not a win win win a borders long enough? not. it's not only a boat to luck way shoes but but providing support to those who remain in you could i yes, yes. yeah. with the, if you don't monitor in packages, financial resources or anything, garza, a lot of things that can be done for those who are remaining there, which i of course is majority of people have disabilities. and milan can i shown it, and i show you some for we cannot see anything can end up the response either yet. but let me show you something because this is natalia. she has 3 youngsters. she is

in keith. ah, because ah, 2 of her young says have disabilities and they cannot being moved. this is what she told us a few hours ago. have a listen. have a look. and milan, how do we help families like natalia's get medicine him? is natalia turning into to them the rescue. validus just don't want to sick of it. it didn't. the didn't of couldn't sticking tells me of your if i start to look on the sheet, it doesn't know sons. austin was a listless of kids as, as cassandra oval of the american of it's went off with the boy, but look similar to status of a woman. must have been too much set them up for the 7 vote. police on the dryer show her in there was a mutual bullshitted, watson of calling us on hold on us to check. like if you ability to do the legal alerts needs them and that has that a squad. no, you know my ability to alyssa will never use it all in this korean abram avila

slow creamy thing will on you think it is possible to get medicine to get supplies into ukraine. natalia's, family needs, medicine need supplies that dwindling. how do you do? like, how does that happen? what am i got offices, what i've got offices. i love to show that has office where you thought you need you pick ups. good medicine is especially complicated issue and realize a lot on on different authorizations and the outdoor at these. and i think that was a special example of where to monitor and organizations who have the expertise in doing this should be reaching out to the local disability organizations and taking care of these needs. the other side of the story is that these families also, besides matt, it's in need, need financial support for to be able to buy food to be able to buy any other basic

things. many of the families that we are working with that we are supporting them and thankful to support from many organizations and individuals in europe. we are able to get them some financial support and i just, we are not monitoring organization either. we are doing this is a very emergency measure and none of these families are able to buy some basic needs or a for couple of hours of somebody taking care of them for november of disability. so they can get some rest or they can get and go by basic stuff that they need. many of these are, there are, there are some themselves, mostly mothers would say that their own and people in their 60, some seventy's who have health issues themselves. and they are taking care of, of their family members who have disabilities. 2474. so it is possible to arrange up like this and, and it's definitely very important that you might,

diary organizations start reaching out to them directly as well. really go ad. yeah, yeah, i want to add to that we can try to help this family and but trust lack with that as always know for crane them with disabilities coordination center all i of course lack of coordination efforts and this family as mine and others, dont know who they can ask about support in we don't provide on the technical of a place and be provided to your claim and with disabilities to as my defense, financial support, even visible in tears, who can provide food, water, and to what people need. and also what is important to my vehicle if a place and by ambulance as to which one is needed. so we will try to contact with

the family and to help them as we can and a here. but this is really a lack of coordination efforts of many international organizations, because as i said, your crane dance is disability. if they very often stay in that they don't have chances to survive, as they don't know whom they can ask about health, and they don't then cause that thou live a while you're about to be saved by somebody. and this is really big, is heal for many players and institutions in this area. if we think a really interesting threat to the story is the fact that the people who have our people like you and i are part of the disability, you know, i'm a wheelchair user. eulley is organization is majority of women with disabilities. the aid that we have gotten is mostly from disability organizations in bordering

countries, like pulling wonderful voc where we've got new people who already have little people who are already marginalized. are the ones stepping in the house. and that's just not. yeah, dana, but we need more support this visto is the most extraordinary part of the issue that we're talking about is that the disability communities within ukraine, outside of ukraine, got together to say, okay, we need to work out how do we help each other? how do we create the support networks? not none of you were set up to do emergency or emergency support for people with disabilities from ukraine. but you are all doing it brilliantly. let me just bring in the world federation of death because this is a great example of what the disability community themselves are doing. this is present. dr. joseph let's. let's just play the video. i will be his voice thought to joseph. oh, i have a doctor that i didn't know, but i will be your voice here. the world federation of the death works with death

associations around the world to protect deaf people during disasters. an armed conflicts. as the 1st shots were fired, the w f. d reached out to our ordinary members, the ukrainian society of the death. we are also in contact with deaf associations in neighboring countries to support them with a deaf refugee situation. we will be orienting the un high commissioner of refugees, of their obligations to death, ukrainian, refugees, such as guaranteeing the right to access information and to seek refuge in another country. now that is supreme networking. that's extraordinary. that's one community . helping another community connecting back as she say, anna to the un network. poking them to make sure that even when they get out of ukraine, that as refugees, they are treated equitably. i want to try you one more, one more, one more video. and this comes from eunice says, julia,

i'm going to play this to you because there been so many, so much criticism, but the lack of support from these big andrarios who are helping people who don't have disabilities get out of ukraine, or even if they are stuck in ukraine, this is toby from unicef, and he has a very practical view of solving some of these problems. here is a call. the ukraine has devastated the lives of children for children living with disability. they are even more vulnerable. that's why you need that is providing caching systems to enable families to buy medical equipment, medical supplies, medicines, and even care is where necessary. we are also coordinating with child protection authorities inside ukraine and those across the region to make that journey for children with disabilities just a little bit less arithmetic as they leave in conflict in ukraine. eula, given cash, is that going to be oh, just give the money?

yes, i know about this initiative. and i think that every each support is helpful. and i think that comparatively to other organizations, unit in ukraine are quite active. and a minimum i hear a lot about does that work at the same time. also want to mention that we don't have conflict in the equation have war. and this is also issue and question to you and to really to buy this not to call say, to have some in the ukraine conflict. it's maria and war and gonna side of your career now installed. and i also want to comment regarding deaf community. oh, now we go for a to vis a really brilliant initiative. he has the earliest a big organization, but to today i don't hear. i haven't hear about a bullet. the duration of death lark. but for example, we cooperate with dex,

ukraine, and woman who now lives in london and with the beginning of war. see this other call extend friends in ukraine, started that support for ukraine, knowns for women and children with disabilities. and this is stuff i got all day some and you know little little organization lucas, i think because they are not to like, officially, organization, but initiative and to bring them to initiative. and yeah, and i also want to stress that not only big organization, but really, who was a few days, this is a really good, really good point because we're right at the end of the show, we need to much more time for this conversation. let me show you here, my laptop duties you d as the organization is called fight for rights,

you can support ukrainians with disabilities during the war. if you are ukranian who needs help, there's a hot going for emergency cases. and i'm just going to say that this show was brought to you by an inspired page from max handle is disability equity, who is part of the disability community, which brings us full circle. thank you so much, matt. thank you. guess i see you next time. take everybody ah ah and we know what's happening in our region. we know how to get the faith is that others? as i said, i'm going the way that you tell the story is what can make

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