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“We came back yesterday from Kherson. (Oblast)
We found new villages with people who really need help.
They don’t have electricity and drinking water. The road is really awful.
That’s why other volunteers don’t want to visit them.” — Аnnа —
Above: Millions fled Ukraine ahead of the Russian advance. Four million. But millions are still living somewhere in the country. Under the occupation, they hid away in basements and sheds. As the months slipped by, little by little the ones who couldn’t leave crept out to eke out an existence.
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Below: These kids (below) sleeping in the loft of a barn in a refugee camp. They are from Mykolaiv. As the Russians approached Mykolaiv and the shelling became intense, the fathers and grand fathers all volunteered to go to the front. They sent the women and children off in vans.
Each time a new area is freed, the strongest flee. That leaving behind the old, the very young, the sick, the destitute and the disabled.
Now, we are sending teams of volunteers in to search for them, and to take them food, medicines and supplies.
In this town (Above) the handful who have remained have organized a sort of “city council”. They keep a notebook of everybody who is still there. When we arrived, we didn’t do a normal distribution but rather we brought them a truck load of food. They will distribute it.
Fields are filled with ammo crates where the Russian gunners had their howitzers set up. Unfortunately, Ukraine is home to more land mines than any other country in the world now. In just one week, two people in this town alone had stepped on mines.
Thanks so much for your help in reaching them.
We absolutely can’t do this without you!!
Please keep praying !!
Blessings to you all,
Allen & Katy
Directors – HarvestEasternEdge