by Evan Raftes | Jun 10, 2026 | Blog
Near the frontline, blackouts aren’t news. They’re Tuesday. They’re every day. For one Ukrainian mother raising four boys in a conflict-zone village, the power going out isn’t a disruption. It’s the routine. This week, her family received...
by Evan Raftes | Jun 9, 2026 | Ukraine Humanitarian Updates
Over 120,000 Ukrainians have been wounded, amputated, or permanently disabled defending their country from Russia’s invasion. For many of them, the war didn’t end when they left the front. It continued in a different form: the inability to get out of a...
by Evan Raftes | Jun 4, 2026 | Ukraine Humanitarian Updates
We see the physical effects of war and geopolitical conflict easily: communities demolished, infrastructure reduced to rubble, families displaced, and people hungry. We see it on our screens, we read about it in the newspaper. But the effects of war go deeper –...
by Evan Raftes | Jun 3, 2026 | Blog
Halyna is 74. She wakes up early on distribution days, wraps a scarf around her shoulders, and starts walking. The road from her village to our collection point takes her the better part of an hour each way. She doesn’t complain about the walk. She just does it....
by Evan Raftes | Jun 3, 2026 | Blog
When Oleksiy came home from the front, he came home different. A leg injury had taken more than his mobility — it had taken the morning walks he used to take before his family woke up, the ability to move through his own house without help, the small private freedoms...
