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Tight Schedule!

The shipping container is scheduled to leave the last week of April and Revolution Academy had spring break the middle of April, which only left April 4-13 to run our Ukraine campaign. There was one small hiccup... our school was also running a Simple Gestures food campaign to help fill our local food banks, so we were asking ourselves if running two big campaigns simultaneously would work.

These kids were up for the challenge, though, and on April 4 we started spreading the word through social media, posters, etc. And, every single morning before 7:30 a.m., rain or shine, club members were greeting kids and parents and answering questions.

The donations were slow to come in at first, but after a few days they began pouring in from everywhere and continued coming through the rest of the campaign. The kindness and generosity of Revolution Academy’s families has been overwhelming.

Members of Trinity Church came to pick up almost everything on April 13 and I don’t know whose smiles were bigger, the church members’ or the students’. Iryna Reed, a church member with family still in Ukraine who is helping organize the donation drive, came on Thursday to pick up donated items that came in late. All of these supplies will be loaded into a shipping container later this month and then onto a ship headed to the port city of Gdansk, Poland. From there, a truck will make the dangerous journey into the city of Rivne in the western area of Ukraine, with the help of Rivne’s mayor, Oleksandr Tretiak. From there they will distribute supplies to other towns, depending on where the greatest needs are and where delivery is possible.

We don’t expect this war to end anytime soon and even when it does, the people of Ukraine will still need our help. Seeing how Revolution Academy rose to the challenge of running two donation campaigns (Simple Gestures for local food banks and humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine), taught our children that you can not only help your own community but reach outside our borders to help those in need.

This service project has sparked some children’s interest in other countries also in need of humanitarian aid and made them more aware of what is going on around the world.

More than anything else, the kids hope their service club’s story inspires another school, just as we were inspired by another school’s story.

how can you help?

“We will keep shipping supplies over to Ukraine as long as we continue to have the support of the community,” Iryna Reed said. If your school or group is interested in helping Living Waters (located inside Trinity Church) by forming a similar donation campaign, please contact Iryna at Irynaareed@gmail.com or (336) 978-8439; or, you can contact Pastor Andriy Ivanets at Trinity Church.

Monetary donations to help pay for the shipping ($6,000 per container) can be made at www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=AA58ND3WGSXKN.

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