Daily News | At Christmastime, here’s a way to help Ukrainian civilians under Russian fire
, a former Kyiv florist-turned-volunteer. Driving over bumpy dirt roads, her team was organizing the rebuilding of village homes and schools in the destroyed area of Borodyanka outside Kyiv, working with teachers and locals and providing funds for contractors.
Earlier this month, she and several volunteers drove in a caravan bringing food, medicine, and blankets to newly liberated villages near Kherson — an area still under frequent Russian shelling. Yet her volunteer team — including a lawyer, a sales manager, some railroad workers, furniture movers, and her husband — persists,
When the caravan passed destroyed villages with no stores open, it stopped to make deliveries to survivors who were emerging from basements. Then it visited outlying areas of liberated Kherson city to make individual deliveries to the disabled, elderly, or orphans who were afraid to evacuate because of the continued shelling. Local contacts give lists of the needy to Alena’s volunteers.
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