Daily News | Ukrainian volunteers, with a Philly connection, help rebuild without waiting for the war to end
Just before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Kseniia Kalmus was swamped with orders at her flower shop in Kyiv, as business continued to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic.
carpenters — emerged across the country at the beginning of the war to rescue, feed, and shelter tens of thousands of terrorized citizens. Some I traveled with Kalmus and two colleagues for a day as she checked on efforts to rebuild traditional tin roofs for old wooden homes in the village of Kukhari“I wanted to stay here and work with my friends and help people,” she recalled, referring to the initial days of the war, when Kyiv and its surroundings were under heavy shelling and many locals were fleeing abroad.
Cherkasskiy posted on Facebook and soon found a volunteer — a real estate agent — who risked her life to find an open pharmacy that had this formula. “I started talking to her and sent $1,000 and soon she had a network of 70 people looking for elderly people stuck at home or people in bomb shelters,” Cherkasskiy told me by phone.
“If the government does it it would be much higher cost and not the same urgency,” Cherkasskiy told me. “We focus on fund-raising,” added Ukrainian American Ilya Knizhnik, who is on the board of Ukraine TrustChain. He was a childhood classmate of Cherkasskiy’s at a Jewish elementary school in Kyiv and is now a tech manager at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia.
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