CINCINNATI (WXIX) – Space highschool college students got here collectively Saturday to pack greater than 100 thousand meals for Ukrainian refugees.
In a pleasant competitors between Tri-State excessive colleges, college students ready and packed high-protein meals from Palms Towards Starvation. These meals will then be shipped in a container to Ukrainian refugees.
Taking part colleges included Clark, Lakota West, Oak Hills, Mason, Mount Notre Dame, Seton and Sycamore.
In attendance was Ukrainian overseas trade pupil Vladyslav Holubovskyi from Oak Hills Excessive College.
Vlad advised FOX19 NOW that occasions like this one hit residence as a result of his household is presently in war-torn Ukraine.
“I feel it’s a very nice day as a result of I see so many individuals with a honest will to assist the individuals of Ukraine. That are my individuals,” Vlad stated.
Vlad loved serving to pack the meals along with his pals however says it’s exhausting to take pleasure in it figuring out his household shouldn’t be right here with him.
“They stated they really feel drained and harassed due to all of this,” stated Vlad, “however they don’t wish to depart Ukraine as a result of my mother and father don’t wish to depart my father alone… they’re interested by going again to Kharkiv despite the fact that it’s fairly harsh there.”
Vlad says his mother and father had been in a position to escape Kharkiv and make it to Western Ukraine, however his grandparents couldn’t.
“My grandparents are staying in our basement as a result of they don’t have a basement at their home,” Vlad says.” In fact, I really feel anxious and harassed about them as a result of typically I can’t name them due to the time distinction or lack of web connection.”
Organizer Jerry Shannon says listening to first-hand tales like for this reason it’s so essential to assist in any means they’ll.
“[The container] will depart right here, and it’ll undergo our companion Convoy of Hope, and Convoy of Hope has companions on the bottom, and they’ll see that it will get within the arms of refugees,” stated Shannon.
Organizers say the containers include sufficient meals to feed greater than 250 individuals.
“What they’re packing is rice and rice soy protein,” stated Shannon. “There’s vitamin powder, and there are additionally dehydrated greens. It goes collectively and makes a excessive protein meal.”
Vlad says that the day served as a reminder all the time to supply a serving to hand.
“I simply thought for a minute, what if this meal that I’m holding proper now could also be essential and save the lifetime of some little one who has been ravenous or perhaps an orphan proper now,” says Vlad. “Then you definately take it severely and do no matter you may.”
The meals will depart the power round mid-April to reach to the households in Romania.
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