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Dog Biscuit Diplomacy
Disclaimer: Unlike most of my blog posts, which are painfully true-to-life, in the following post I have taken complete liberty to stray from a strictly truthful record of the facts as I recall them. I make no pretense of reporting in this post anything that actually happened in real life. Whether this story is inspired…
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What a Wonderful World this Would Be
If purely naive good intentions could resolve human conflicts . . . what a wonderful world this would be! Today I helped the August Mission team unload a NuDay container filled chock-a-block with humanitarian aid materiel. Everything was donated by American families, and shipped across the ocean to Poland, shipping also paid for with donated…
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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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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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Khmelnytskyi IDPs
Today I helped the August Mission team deliver a load of humanitarian aid goods to the Khmelnytskyi regional IDP humanitarian aid center. IDP stands for “internally displaced person.” IDPs are people who have been driven from their homes because of some disaster or hardship, but remain within their home country. This is slightly different from…
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