Polish & Slavic FCU Launches Fund to Assist Ukrainian Refugees
All donations will be sent to charitable organizations providing direct assistance to Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
The $2.6 billion, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union (PSFCU) has established a relief fund for Ukrainian refugees in partnership with the John Paul II Foundation of New Jersey, the credit union announced Wednesday.
“As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ongoing war and the resulting humanitarian crisis in the country, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians have fled their homeland, with a vast majority of them crossing the Ukrainian border into Poland,” a statement from PSFCU read. “These refugees are in dire need of humanitarian aid since, in the majority of cases, they left their homes with just a handful of personal items.”
The credit union said it will send the collected donations in their entirety to local charitable organizations providing direct assistance to Ukrainian refugees in Poland. “We encourage everyone to join us in this humanitarian effort,” PSFCU stated.
Those who would like to donate should mail a check, made out to the John Paul II Foundation with the memo “Donation for Ukraine Refugees,” to:
Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union Ukraine Refugees Relief Fund 9 Law Drive Fairfield, NJ 07004
PSFCU was founded in 1976 by a group of Polish immigrants to help other ethnic Poles obtain mortgages. It now serves over 108,000 members and operates 21 branches in New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Pennsylvania, as well as a mortgage center in New Britain, Conn., and an operations center in Fairfield, N.J.