Young Ukrainians are traveling around the country to help clean up people's homes destroyed by Russian strikes. They blast techno music and have dance parties while they do it. 'Listening to music keeps us balanced, so we can keep working,' one says.
Pete Kiehart for NPR
They volunteer for Repair Together, a large network of friends who raise money to bring busloads of young people from around Ukraine to destroyed villages, to help people clean up their homes.Today, they're in Kolychivka, a village near the northern city of Chernihiv, which Russia bombarded early in the war.
"Volunteering in Ukraine, it's become a way of our everyday life. We all just want to feel useful," he says.Pete Kiehart for NPRRoman Tarasiuk, 27, helps clean up the destroyed home of Hanna Yurchenko in Kolychivka on Oct. 1.A portable speaker and an extension cord rest on a heater in the rubble of a home in Kolychivka on Oct. 1.A portable speaker and an extension cord rest on a heater in the rubble of a home in Kolychivka on Oct. 1.
"The scale of destruction is just so huge," says Marina Hrebinna, 34, one of the organizers. It can be easy to become overwhelmed by it all, she says. The group tries to focus on what's possible, on the difference they can make to individual people in individual villages.
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