care of by the families and by their friends. now more and more need accommodation, need basic help. and, of course, they re much more traumatized by war. we feed them, we give them medical help, we give them psychological help, and we also provide accommodation. but it needs to be said that the government organized reception centers along the border, but when it comes to the cities, most of the burden is on us. most of it is improvised. volunteers help us out, governmental organizations, we are sending buses to our friends in cities across poland and across europe, but i m of the opinion that we need a synchronized system, which would help us deal with the problem. we need a relocation system. there is a huge logistical experience and exercise, but that s what we need from the european community and the world. you need some coordination
safe haven for quite a lot of displaced persons. if they all cross the border, we re going to have 7, 8, 10 million refugees in europe. and of course most of them will end up here. that s why we need a relocation system. we cannot improvise, we cannot simply rely on pledges that we re going to take a thousand or someone else is going to take 2,000. we need a system. we need united nations and european emergency agencies who are very qualified to do that, in place. reporter: the warsaw mayor has been calling for spot. relocation program, international relocation program for more than a week. but countries in europe are still sort of responding to this in an ad hoc way, with refugees welcome in other european countries, alex, but no coordination across the eu or into other countries like the u.s., like canada, australia, and so on, to figure out a way
pleaded for more help with the refugee situation needing relocation system and they cannot do it alone, can you describe some of the biggest challenges that they are facing? well, up to 2 million refugees in poland now. we have taken them into our homes but, of course, they will need schooling, they will need housing, they will need health care. i think the european union is going to kick in and help at least with money, but we feel that the ukrainians are fighting our fight, the least we can do is take care of women and children. we are hearing concerns of assault, human trafficking, mostly women and children that are fleeing and high risk of exploitation and one of the reporters earlier in the show described at some of the train stations they have posters up alerting people of the risk. do you think there needs to be some greater surveillance effort
honored him. carley: well-deserved honor of merit. bring in the mayor of warsaw, poland. mayor, thank you for joining us show this morning. you say the refugee crisis in warsaw is getting worse and worse by the day. how so? well, we ve welcomed 300,000 refugees and that s a huge number. that is like 15% of my population in warsaw. of course we are dealing with it, solidarity of the people has been immense and work done by the volunteers and services of my city is exemplary and we are helping as much as we can. we are at capacity and if there is escalation in ukraine, we have to deal with second wave of refugees issue the situation will become very, very difficult. that is why we need a relocation system where we all in europe and elsewhere, we share the