Before she evacuated her frontline village, a Ukrainian woman sat down and wrote two pages about her dog. She described her personality. Her habits. Her favorite treats. The way she liked to be held. She wanted whoever found her to know exactly who she was. Then she...
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...
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...
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 –...
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....
