Ukraine – Zhytomyr 3
Trying to catch up on sharing our experiences in Ukraine … Our friend Oksana, once a well-known television host and now a professor of Journalism at Zhytomyr University invited us to speak with her class. It was especially meaningful for our IR journalist, Sonny Tapia. We had barely begun when the air-raid siren sounded. Without panic, without hesitation, the entire [...]
Ukraine – Zhytomyr Regional Hospital
Yesterday we spent the day at the Zhytomyr Regional Hospital, delivering the critically needed orthopedic equipment and other essential surgical supplies we brought. From the moment we arrived, we were welcomed so warmly by Dr. Vitali Khomencho and Dr. Victor, two extraordinary surgeons who work with a level of dedication that feels almost superhuman. I met them two years agoWe [...]
Ukraine – Day 2 Lviv
One of the most important things we do as human beings, as witnesses, as people who care, is to ask questions and to bear witness. Being in a country at war requires a kind of seeing that is deeper than observation. You see the surface of life, but you also feel the layers, beneath it layers of fear, resilience, exhaustion, and a determination [...]
Ukraine – Day 1 Lviv
Today we went to the defenders cemetery. We brought flowers to lay on some of the graves. There were 1000s! It is impossible to put into words the heartbreak of standing among those 1000s of graves, row after row of Ukraine’s defenders. So many were young men, barely adults, some only eighteen. Others in their 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and [...]
Syria – Urgent Appeal!
Our friend and colleague Omar Alshakal founder and director of Refugee4Refugees has returned to his homeland of Syria after 13 years in exile. He began his journey elated at the collapse of the horrible regime of Assad and spent the first evening in the square in Damascus celebrating with fellow countrymen. Then he began his journey home [...]
HARRT welcomes Congolese family to Helena
A family has arrived in Helena from the Democratic Republic of the Congo after 25 years in a Tanzanian refugee camp. This is a family of 10 with a grandmother, mother and dad and seven children between two and 17. The Congolese family has already been granted asylum, vetted by the U.S. State Department, Homeland Security, and the International Office of [...]