By Diane Marie Williams and Nina Meyerhof
Currently about 2 million refugees have fled from Ukraine to Poland to seek safety. Several members of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle formed “Team Hope” to offer their support. Nina Meyerhof and Domen Kocevar, co-founders of One Humanity Institute, and Diane Marie Williams, founder of the Source of Synergy Foundation, as well as friends Christine Burych, Angelika Kobl, representatives of local schools and the Rotary International, did direct service work on the ground at the border, registration centers, train stations and shelters focusing their attention on giving Teddy Bears and art supplies to children, setting up emotional first aid and beginning the outfitting a “House of Hope” that is part of One Humanity Institute in Oswiecim-Auschwitz, Poland for 20-40 refugees that will serve as a safe and nourishing place of hope that will meet their immediate needs for shelter and food, warmth, connection as well as serve as a social innovation co-learning space.
We are also suggesting to the government to take 12 barracks adjacent to Auschwitz that One Humanity Institute is hoping to acquire to house its future activity centers and create a City of Hope that could house 1,000 people during the crisis. The transformation of...