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HOME COMFORTS: Neil and Sarah Green pictured in their home they shared with a Ukrainian family in need of support.

A Derbyshire couple have spoken of their experience of hosting a Ukrainian family to encourage more people to come forward and open up their home to help.

Hearing in the news about the plight of people in Ukraine following the Russian invasion inspired Sarah Green and her husband Neil, along with their 10-year-old son James, to offer a home for refugees through the Government’s Home for Ukraine scheme.

“I couldn’t imagine what it must be like in their shoes,” said Sarah. “We had the space and we all thought it was something we could do. We wanted to help.”

Sarah admits she found the visa process long and frustrating, but eventually they took in a young…

Over 80,000 displaced Ukrainians have arrived in Ireland since the war started. In the midst of a wider housing crisis, the state has run out of emergency accommodation for new arrivals.

Over 1,100 Ukrainians are living with hosts in Cork and many more are still in need of accommodation. Now Helping Irish Hosts is appealing to Cork residents to come forward to offer a room in their home or a self-contained property, with a nationwide roadshow visiting Midleton this week to answer any questions locals might have about hosting.

The event, happening in Midleton Family Resource Centre on Wednesday, June 21st at 7pm, invites current hosts and anyone interested in hosting to get together for an evening of celebration and information-sharing on what it’s like to host displaced Ukrainians and…

Thursday featured the odd occurrence of two vice presidents, one past and one present, in Poland amid Russia’s devastating invasion of Ukraine.

Former Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Poland along with former first lady Karen Pence to meet with refugees, just as Vice President Kamala Harris was announcing the latest details of U.S. security aide. 

The dueling events put Pence closest to the border, encountering refugees bundled up against the cold outside after leaving their country behind amid Russia’s brutal invasion.

Harris met with world leaders and answered questions from the press, while hosting a select group of refugees at a roundtable. 

Pence came with minister Edward Graham of Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical relief group.

Pence tweeted that the former second couple were…