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Nuns in a Ukrainian convent have helped 1000 students escape so far.
https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/ministry/news/nuns-ukraine-rescue-escort-stranded-foreign-students-borderSpeaking to GSR en route to Bucharest by train, Suresh said he and 45 other Indian students were stranded at the Polish border for 15 hours when Payyappilly and Sr. Christina Tymurzhina, a Ukrainian, came to help them.
"The sisters took us to their convent in their vehicles, hugged each of us with their love and warmth, gave us food, a warm hall to sleep in and escorted us in the morning to cross the Romania border," Suresh said as his friends slept on the train.
Payyappilly said Suresh was among about 1,000 foreign students her convent has helped so far.
Other congregations are also involved in rescue operations but they mostly help fleeing Ukrainians, whose numbers have reached more than 1 million, according to U.N. estimates.
Other congregations have shared Payyappilly's contact numbers with the foreign students stranded at various locations. "Since there were many to support Ukrainians, we opted to help foreign students, a lot of them being Indians," Payyappilly explained.
"The sisters took us to their convent in their vehicles, hugged each of us with their love and warmth, gave us food, a warm hall to sleep in and escorted us in the morning to cross the Romania border," Suresh said as his friends slept on the train.
Payyappilly said Suresh was among about 1,000 foreign students her convent has helped so far.
Other congregations are also involved in rescue operations but they mostly help fleeing Ukrainians, whose numbers have reached more than 1 million, according to U.N. estimates.
Other congregations have shared Payyappilly's contact numbers with the foreign students stranded at various locations. "Since there were many to support Ukrainians, we opted to help foreign students, a lot of them being Indians," Payyappilly explained.
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... which is probably the wrong direction anyway. Poland is northwest and India is south-southeast of Ukraine. The sisters of St. Joseph did them a huge favor by not only rescuing them, but getting them going south to Romania. It sounds like they actually drove the students across the border into Romania, and then they were able to get on a train to Bucharest.
Well done, Sisters of St. Joseph!
