Anita Liberty Horse Fund

Help for Ukraine.

We have 11 horses (3 of which are ponies). 9 people with childran and a horse team (3 people). 2 dogs.

We are a team of trainers working with horses in Liberty style. Near Kiev in the stable "Magnat" we were engaged in activities with children, developing in them a humane attitude towards horses.

When the war started, we were all woken up by the sound of explosions. And since then we have not been calm, we have been trying to find options to evacuate the horses, not to leave them here.

The difficulty was to find transport for 11 horses. Nobody wanted to take risks and go to Kyiv, where there were active hostilities.

My boyfriend worked as a builder and repaired horse trucks, he agreed with the client to quickly build a safe truck for horses from his truck.

Day and night, he and his team built the truck. As soon as it was ready, we loaded the horses and ammunition and left.We had to drive around Kyiv to be safe. Our journey from Kyiv to Khmelnitsky was 3 days and 2 nights. During this time, the horses were in the truck and trailer, we slept in the cars. It was difficult to find fuel, water, food.

In Khmelnitsky, horses stood 2 in one box. We waited for our documents to be processed and tried to raise money for this train, because the cost of gasoline, documents and border crossing was prohibitive for us.

A week later, the documents were ready, we went to Lviv to make chips for the horses. We had to wait 3 days. Then we went to the border. Crossing the border took a day. It was difficult and more expensive than we expected, so I gave all the money for it, even those that I left for the first time of our life in another country.

In Poland, we were received by the hospitable Ilona Turowska. Now our horses have food and shelter. But we don't know what everyone else should do. We left everything in Ukraine: our houses, things, our wonderful work. Spent all the money on this move to safety. And now we are trying to arrange life and help our relatives who remained in Ukraine.

And I am now pregnant at 7 months and do not yet understand how to arrange life for myself and the unborn baby.

We will be grateful to everyone for any help, because this is very important for us now.