A Bicycle Saved This Village (EN)
UNHCRUkraine
Description
Ievdokia Chepel is like many older people in rural eastern Ukraine. She suffers from health problems while the region’s seven-year conflict and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have worsened her sense of isolation. For decades, she worked in a factory, but at 77 she is retired and a widow. Her son died last year and she rarely sees her daughter and granddaughter who live in Luhansk, Ukraine’s second biggest city, on the other side of the contact line that divides government and non-government territory. But since last year, help has arrived in an unexpected form: on three wheels. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, used funding from the European Union to provide medical and social workers with 228 bicycles and 35 electric tricycles.
Metadata
Published to Youtube on: 30/09/2021
Archived on: 11/08/2025
Original URL (may no longer be available): https://youtube.com/watch?v=-YcPLBvAnvg