Haverford College's international students from Ukraine and Russia are working together to support each other and encourage the school to teach more about Ukraine, its language and politics, and take a strong stand against the war.
ravaging one of their countries and dividing the other. They have been volunteering and raising money to support Ukrainians back home and lobbying their college to bring more Ukrainian students to the school, teach more about the country, its language and politics, and take a strong stand against the war.
And they’ve done it while enduring their own deep hardship, knowing that their loved ones thousands of miles away are in danger. “Immediately my office started looking into individual financial aid situations for students,” said John McKnight, dean of the college. “All of their savings that they were able to pull out, that’s what they are using now,” said Khovryak, who was last home for winter break, before the war started.
Shostak’s mother, who lives in Kropyvnytskyi, a city in central Ukraine, is suffering from metastatic cancer and had been traveling to Kharkiv, a city in northern Ukraine, for treatments in a clinical trial. “I can fight and I’m not there. I’m thousands of miles away raising money,” he said, “but help comes in different ways. I do believe what I’m doing here is right and important.”
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