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For Ukraine, Sweetly Kingston Candy Bar’s Diane Reeder sells popular Vegan donuts to support refugees. | By Rebecca Hardiman because they couldn’t ack in March, when longtime even grab their things. Kingston resident and culinary It’s always the people with chef Diane Reeder first saw images kids or the elderly, and who’s of the unprovoked war Ukraine helping them?” was enduring, she Well, Diane Reeder for one. was, like so many others Long inspired by Chef around the world, deeply José Andrés and his World troubled. “I was thinking about Central Kitchen, which brings a family leaving their home immediate food relief to and having to live in a subway victims of war and natural underground and never disasters across the globe, knowing where or even if eder e R Reeder got on the horn to her they’re gonna be able to return e n Dia fellow Culinary Institute of home,” says Reeder, owner of America graduates to brainstorm. Soon Kingston Candy Bar on Wall Street. “Their enough, she came up with a sweet concept: only other option is to flee. Then they’re decorating her donuts with Ukraine’s showing up in a new place with nothing
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signature flag colors with proceeds sent to the World Central Kitchen or her Airbnb host partner, customers’ choice. “We heard about people in Ukraine booking Airbnb rooms and I thought that was a really cool idea,” she says. “Our wholesale price for a dozen donuts covers the cost of an Airbnb in Poland where it’s cheaper. I was able to find the perfect host, a single woman with a spare bedroom and a pullout sofa. She takes in refugees and doesn’t charge them, and the money we raise helps meet their basic daily needs— food, shampoo, soap, all those things.” Reeder worries that as the war continues, otherwise good people will be less attuned to supporting its victims. “When something is big, like the splash of the moment, it’s very popular and then it can kind of die down,” she says.
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