Igor Oliyarnik, who moved to the Cleveland-area when he was 10, still has family and friends over in Ukraine and thinks about them daily as the unrest continues.
As of Saturday afternoon, he has raised $10,000.
The organization, established in 2014, helps with humanitarian needs, such as helping a spouse of an injured or killed soldier, he said. But the organization has shifted focus on not just families of soldiers, but civilians, helping them with medical supplies and financial support.“It’s not necessarily money; there’s medical supplies, they send food,” he said. “Anything that can help the refugee crisis.”“If Russia calls and says, ‘Stop, the war is over,’ so many lives have already been affected,” he said. “These people will need help, not just today, not just next year.
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