Harvard students' site helping Ukraine refugees find housing

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Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in.

The platform, UkraineTakeShelter.com, is generating offers of help and housing worldwide.

Eighteen-year-old Marco Burstein of Los Angeles and 19-year-old Avi Schiffman of Seattle say they were moved to act by the plight of Ukrainian refugees desperate to escape Russian bombardment.And refugees, in turn, have been registering to find matches with hosts in their locations.One of those who has used the website to help refugees is a man in Sweden, who opened his home to 45-year-old Ukrainian evacuee Oksana Frantseva, her 18-year-old daughter, and their cat, the Associated Press reported.

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