NGO Director Path to Help, Emma Same32-year-old Spaniard died in Ukraine After an NGO convoy in the Bakhmut region was attacked by Russian forces around 10 am.
HE A bullet hit the vehicle in the city of Ivanivskehe said as he passed through Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, where aid workers had set out to assess the needs of civilians caught in the crossfire. Path to Help in their statement through their social networks. He and his team set out to the village, which was on the front lines of the conflict, to help neighbors. On the way, “the car received a direct hit, overturned and caught fire.”
In the vehicle were German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick, Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr, Canadian volunteer Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat, and Spanish volunteer and director of Road to Relief, Emma Igual.
Rubén and Johan suffered serious injuries from shrapnel wounds and burns, but are currently being treated in separate hospitals away from the scene. Tonko’s death was confirmed and her body was found as well as Emma Igual’s.
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares reported from New Delhi, where the G-20 summit was held, that the government received “verbal confirmation” about what happened in the Bajmut region on Saturday. on his behalf, The Foreign Minister added that the vehicle was hit by a shell, but did not specify whether it was fired by Russian artillery.As Road to Relief states. As the NGO highlights, Ivanivske is a battle scene with intense crossfire between the two armies.
Emma A. Same He was from Barcelona and had extensive experience in the field of collaboration since 2009, as he stated in his profile on the social network LinkedIn. “I am a humanitarian officer with many years of experience in refugee camps and informal settlements. I specialize in Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) and Refugee/IDP support and have collaborated with various NGOs in Greece, Myanmar, Kenya and Morocco, among other locations Besides the.”
Previously, he worked as a research assistant at various universities and United Nations agencies for over five years, where he wrote, translated and edited a variety of academic articles, many of which were published in specialist academic newspapers and journals. Actually after Path to Help and its co-founder had been featured in numerous Spanish and Ukrainian media.
Road to Help: “Help us, help Ukraine”
One Humanitarian NGO registered in Ukraine, established in March 2022 to assist the civilian population most affected by the Russian occupation. Its areas of activity are in the Donetsk and Kherson provinces, where it serves a total of 112 villages with a total population of more than 30,000. They initially began their mission in Ukraine with the aim of evacuating civilians on the front lines, but the organization has grown exponentially over the past year and has been able to expand its programs to other areas.
The evacuation team consists of volunteers with extensive experience in humanitarian crisis contexts around the world and is responsible for picking up refugees directly from their homes and taking them to their shelter in Kramatorsk, where they will spend the first night. The next morning, they are escorted to the Pokrovsk railway station, where they can travel around Ukraine or Europe.