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Changing Our Focus & Field Kitchens.

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    As I leave Krakow for Bristol and home the snow is falling. I think back to the media clip I saw of Ukranian President Zelensky on the snowy streets in the capital Kyiv on Tuesday where he said ‘ Snow has fallen. Such a spring. Like the war, like the spring, sad…but everything will be fine. We will overcome everything ‘   as he winked mischievously and confidently. It’s difficult to explain the mix of emotion I feel as I leave Poland. I cannot wait to see my incredibly loving and understanding wife and children but I am struggling to leave as so much of my heart remains with the women and children fleeing terror, those in Ukraine giving their lives for their beliefs, and with the incredible Polish people who have at every point supported us with kindness and practical help. I feel as if I have so much unfinished business. I arrived here a month ago not long after the start of the exodus of so many women and children from Ukraine. My first couple of days was spent in the Warsaw dist