🇺🇦 Anna used to run children’s summer camps. Now she does a job few can imagine: delivering humanitarian supplies to communities on the front line of the war in Ukraine 🔎 Big Read by mollyblackall
With a small team, Anna coordinates with local and military authorities to organise the trip, navigating bomb craters and muddy tracks to reach remote villages ravaged by conflict., before scrambling out under the constant threat of possible Russian bombardment.
Most have no experience in humanitarianism: prior to the war, Heritage Ukraine ran summer camps for disadvantaged children. When the invasion began, they gave away all of their equipment to avoid it being seized and used by Russian forces, and turned their hand to delivering supplies instead. “In March 2022, the Russians were stopped at Mykolaiv. Anna and some of her colleagues stayed in our HQ to help deliver winter supplies to this region,” Alyona says. “Then the Russians were pushed back to the other side of the Dnipro River and there was an opportunity to go where we were most needed – where there was no water or electricity.
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