Spooked by reports that traffickers are waiting at the Ukraine-Poland border, a Polish woman started an all-women car service to drive Ukrainian refugee women and children to homes or shelters.
Hanna"Anya" Antoniuk, 22, fled her home in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, after the Russian invasion. After she crossed into Poland, she saw a column of men offering rides."No way I would have gotten into a strange man's car," she says. She was relieved to find a female-only carpooling service instead.
Elzbieta"Ella" Jarmulska, a 39-year-old project manager and board-game developer, sensed this too as she was standing in the crowd at the reception center that night early last month. She had driven from her home in Prace Male, a town just outside Warsaw, the capital. "Twenty, 30 guys, big guys by the way, standing together in a group," she recalls."I mean, I wouldn't feel comfortable walking up to them and saying, 'Oh, which one of you gentlemen will take me for free around Poland?'"Members of the Polish carpooling group Kobiety za Kolko , from left: Monika Pietrzak, Ella Jarmulska, Anna Time and Anna Marianowicz Kurek. The drivers, all women, offer rides to Ukrainian women and children on the Polish border after fleeing war.
"It's about the anticipation of danger," she says."That you think, 'What will happen? What is next? A second ago, they bombarded my town. They killed people. And now I'm supposed to get into a car with a strange man?'"
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