Family from front line
Today “Donbass Humanitarian Aid” went out by the Donetsk airport to visit a family we have met and helped before. Dima, his wife Katya and their 3 cute kids Darina, Nikita and Andrey, have lived in their house since before the war. It has been hit several times, and is still in the Red Zone, so does not qualify for reconstruction funding from the Republic.Still, Dima has financed and made major repairs himself, and the house is now normal and comfortable, even if still vulnerable to the Ukrainian Army shelling at any time. When we were there today, bringing school supplies and a few sweets for the kids, we asked how the combat situation was in their neighborhood. They said it was quiet, but the quiet makes them equally as nervous as the thunder of shelling, because they know the war is not over yet, and they are waiting…It was not a big human aid project, just school supplies and sweets for 3 little kids who have grown up under war their whole lives. Still, school supplies are needed, and more than anything, these kids need to know they are not forgotten, which is what we showed them today, THANKS to all who contributed, and so went with us today in spirit, to visit kids who have lived their whole lives on the front lines of a war that never should have happened.
