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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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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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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…