From the center of war to the center of the world.

On September 13th, three days after the city of Izyum was liberated, we helped deliver food, medicine, tourniquets, and water filters to this newly freed area of Ukraine. While close and loud explosions could be heard, we quickly stopped and picked up a mortar casing that was close to the road. When Russia flees, they leave everything behind.

After carrying this large shell casing through 5 countries and custom controls, it now stands at our home base in Ecuador.

Eight months earlier, our friend and translator Myroslava gave Dr. Suzanne a few Ukrainian sunflower seeds. These beautiful flowers are now a daily reminder of our friends in Ukraine who are in distress, in the cold, in the dark.

Being Ukraine’s national flower, the sunflower symbolizes peace, but now resistance as well.

Today on the equator, they’re also proof that out of something cold and disgusting, something fragile and beautiful can blossom.

Slava Ukraini.

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