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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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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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American Dream
Yesterday I travelled from Poland to a small city in western Ukrainian called Khmelnytskyi. I plan to stay here until the end of October, focusing on learning more about Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. I may find a tutor to help me practice speaking Ukrainian, and I will probably also spend time volunteering at some…
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