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Flag Friendship
I’m spending this weekend in Khmelnytskyi, waiting to go to the Ukraine consulate in Lublin Poland early next week to get a volunteer service visa that will allow to continue working in Ukraine. Today, the August Mission team was planning to make a delivery to the Catholic church in Starocostantyanyiv. I didn’t have any important…
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Should We Never Meet Again
This week, from January 2 through January 9, I am volunteering again in the children’s safe activity space at the reception center for Ukrainian refugees in Przemysl, Poland. This week has been remarkably quiet; it seems very few Ukrainian refugees are on the move right now. So each day, we are only hosting a handful…
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He Walks!
This morning after breakfast at the nursing home for elderly and disabled folks, I was helping Svetlana, one of the nurses, with washing up and hygiene for some of the bed-ridden men. We were helping the men with showering and shaving. I was busy shaving one of the guys when I heard behind me an…
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Chasiv Yar Diary Dec. 29, 2022
This week, the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, I am volunteering at the Chasiv Yar nursing home, which is temporarily relocated to the village of Cokilets in Khmelnytskyi oblast, Ukraine. The August Mission team was making a pre-Christmas delivery on Friday, December 23 so I helped them load their truck, and they gave…
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Christmas at the Refugee Center
I’m spending another couple of weeks right before Christmas helping out at the children’s activity area in the Ukraine refugee reception center at Przemysl, Poland.Today and yesterday were both red-letter days for me in the children’s activity space, because on both days I was able to engage a child to sit with me to read…
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International Volunteers’ Day
December 5 of each year has been formally designated as “International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development” by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. It is a special day to celebrate the spirit of volunteerism and the important contributions volunteers are making around the world. This year in observation of International Volunteer Day,…
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Chasiv Yar Diary, Dec. 5, 2022
A couple of days ago August Mission‘s Ukraine team went to the Polish port city of Gdansk to take delivery of a shipping container of humanitarian aid goods donated by NuDay. Since the August Mission team were going to be gone for several days, I had nothing much to do in Khmelnytskyi, so I traveled…
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Love & Hope
I recently volunteered to help the August Mission team deliver humanitarian aid materials to a Roman Catholic church in a smaller town called Starokostyantyniv, located about 50 kilometers north of Khmelnytskyi on the main highway towards Kyiv. The trip today was actually my third visit to Starokostyantyniv since I arrived in Khmelnytskyi a month ago.…
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Chasiv Yar Diary – Nov. 11, 2022
A couple of weeks ago I wrote this blog post about the Chasiv Yar assisted living home for the elderly relocated to a mothballed school building in a remote rural village outside Khmelnytskyi. After I wrote it, I asked the director of the home, Gennadiy, if he would take a look at it and give…
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Elderly in Exile
Today I helped August Mission‘s team in Khmelnytskyi deliver humanitarian aid materials to a nursing home located in the hinterlands of Khmelnytskyi Oblast. To reach the nursing home, we drove about 90 minutes on smooth highway and then exited onto a small country road. We drove another 30 minutes at low speed on very rough…
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