Harvard students’ site helping Ukraine refugees find housing

Burstein works on his computer near the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moved by the plight of Ukrainian refugees desperate to escape Russian bombardment across the former Soviet republic, he and Schiffmann used their coding skills to create UkraineTakeShelter.com over three frenzied days in early March. — AP

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in – and it’s generating offers of help and housing worldwide.

Moved by the plight of Ukrainian refugees desperate to escape Russian bombardment across the former Soviet republic, Marco Burstein, 18, of Los Angeles, and Avi Schiffmann, 19, of Seattle, used their coding skills to create UkraineTakeShelter.com over three frenzied days in early March.