‘Our hearts are with them’: Ukrainian scouts make first-aid kits to ship home
gathered in Bethesda to assemble lightweight, portable kits that Ukrainian people could carry in a pocket or a purse and have ready if glass shatters or shrapnel flies.They’re giving not only the supplies people so desperately need, said Leda Huta, a troop leader from Silver Spring, “but hopefully they also see our hearts are with them.”Many of the scouts have family in Ukraine, and all share a cultural and humanitarian concern, said Andrew Demidowich, a doctor who lives in Columbia, Md.
The kits were designed by Dan Olesnicky, a trauma surgeon who is a Ukrainian scout, and many Plast chapters have been filling boxes with them in recent weeks, shipping them overseas to Plast Ukraine along with other aid. Boy Scouts in tan uniforms ran from table to table replenishing supplies. “Who needs Band-Aids? Who needs Band-Aids?” one shouted. Steve Fox, retired from the U.S. Foreign Service and an assistant scout master for Boy Scouts of America, reached out to Plast because helping and being kind are tenets of scouting, he said. “I know the value of person-to-person diplomacy,” Fox said, “and that is what this is.
That connection to the shared culture “helps you transcend yourself as an individual, connect you to that rich tapestry your ancestors have been weaving for years,” Demidowich said.Kalyna’s mother, Eva Mykolenko, had tears welling up as she looked at the room full of people — some who recently left the country, some who had never been to Ukraine and were generations removed — making the first-aid kits.
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