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Dressing Room Redux
As I described in my post “Bottlenecked in the Bathroom,” we are hoping to upgrade washing, bathing, laundry and general sanitation facilities at the nursing home for elderly and disabled IDPs (internally displaced people) where I am volunteering here in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. We would like to have hot running water available for the residents at…
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Evac Team Visit
Yesterday our shelter for elderly and disabled IDPs (internally displaced people) in Ukraine enjoyed a visit from Ignatius Ivlev-Yorke and one of his partners. Ignatius runs a civilian evacuation team in eastern Ukraine. The members of the team are all volunteers. Some of them are Ukrainians, others are foreigners. Ignatius himself holds a UK passport. …
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Bottlenecked in the Bathroom
Disclosure: We are looking for help with a facilities upgrade here at the nursing home. The content of this post is an accurate description of the situation, but the facts are presented with the unvarnished purpose of persuading you, dear reader, to contribute something to the effort. Those who are just generally curious about the…
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Standing His Ground in Chasiv Yar
Eugene Tkachev in Chasiv Yar
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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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New RAYA Project: Humanitarian Volunteer Census
RAYA is launching a new long-term project to systematically evaluate the impact of humanitarian volunteer work in Ukraine. Although this pilot project will focus on Ukraine, analytical results of the study may be used to guide volunteer utilization channels and increase the impact of volunteer efforts when other humanitarian crises occur in similar contexts in…
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