Lately for Friday 11 March 2022
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10:18 World Food Programme tackles Ukraine crisis
Two Ukrainians enter Poland every three seconds and the 1.4 million who have arrived since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, would create Poland's second largest city. In the past fortnight more than two million Ukrainians have become refugees in the European Union, mostly in the eastern member states. The World Food Programme is the world's biggest humanitarian agency fighting hunger and is in Poland. Abeer Etefa is with the WFP in the southern Polish city of Krakow. She's seen the thousands of Ukrainian refugees pouring in but is also helping the WFP to send food back into Ukraine
A woman is crying after arriving on a train from Ukraine to the railway station in Przemysl, Poland on February 25, 2022. Photo: AFP or licensors
10:28 New Zealand aid worker on the ground in Ukraine
Inside Ukraine the fighting that is causing the exodus of so many people is continuing on multiple fronts. The Mayor of Kyiv, former boxing champion Vitali Klitschcko, says the capital has been turned into a fortress as Russian forces close in. Other Ukrainian cities are also under siege and for those who either don't want to leave or can't, aid workers are doing what they can to help. One of them is New Zealander, Mike Seawright, who founded ReliefAid. He entered Ukraine alone two days ago
10:36 Godzone race still going
The 710 kilometre Godzone race in the South Island is still going. The winning team crossed the finish line at Brighton beach south of Dunedin yesterday, but there are still more teams to come in. The race started on the West Coast last week and includes running, mountain biking, kayaking and trekking over mountains. Former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw and his team had to pull out during the race. Warren Bates is the creator of the Godzone race and he's at the finish line on Brighton Beach
Mike Seawright from ReliefAid Photo: Supplied
10:45 Peace walk nears the finish
Two nights in hospital and blistered feet have not dented the determination of Temel Atacocugu to finish his walk from Dunedin to Christchurch. Temel is a survivor of the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019 and he left Dunedin on March the 1st in the name of peace to reclaim the path taken by the terrorist. Along the way he got severe blisters, fever and a blood infection, causing him to spend two nights in Timaru Hospital. He set off again yesterday on a bike and today made it as far as Ashburton.