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By Nolan Peterson | March 05, 2022
Since the war began, the lobby of a downtown building in Horishni Plavni has transformed into a workspace to produce camouflage netting. The place hums with activity each day while hundreds of volunteers, ranging from children to the elderly, cut strips of fabric and weave them into nets.
Photo by Nolan Peterson/Coffee or Die
For an outsider, the scene is striking. The Russian army is bearing down on this place, and yet, rather than submit to fear or focus on personal priorities, these Ukrainians are volunteering to help their community.
We are full of energy and motivation and hope, said Mykola Mokh, a displaced person from Kharkiv who is among the volunteers in Horishni Plavni. I have no depression, and no fear of death. Ill do whatever it takes to live in a free country.
We are helping our guys protect themselves, said Raisa Klymchuk, the project director. We are at war. This is our duty.
Sitting alone at home, perhaps one could succumb to fear or depression. But those fears almost instantly fade when acting in concert with ones community and feeling useful.
We are all united by our desire to help, Klymchuk said. And the most important thing is to have something to do.
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MiHale
(9,593 posts)Donkees
(31,091 posts)Delphinus
(11,808 posts)in2herbs
(2,942 posts)frame this and hang in my house.
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(31,091 posts)Creator: Robert Colasanto
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(2,942 posts)sagetea
(1,363 posts)"We are all related"
Beautiful picture!
Aho`
sage
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Delphinus
(11,808 posts)get this. There is so much energy and emotion about this that it's hard to find a way to channel it.
Donkees
(31,091 posts)Nolan Peterson @nolanwpeterson -- My latest dispatch from Ukraine.
This was not a climate of fear or pessimism. Rather, there was a clear strength forged by community action. A single purpose to which everyone had subscribed victory.
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)Libertarians could never do this. The me first attitude of Republicans could never do this.
Brave souls do what they can together.
Bezos didn't send himself into space, scientists and workers did. The Koch Bros, Waltons and Bezos would have nothing if our society stopped supporting them.
Billionaires exist because of our society, not because they were successful, or hard working.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)THESE folk are the patriotic freedom fighters, not the folk participating in those ridiculous truck convoys
PatSeg
(46,806 posts)Thank you for sharing.
JudyM
(29,122 posts)crickets
(25,896 posts)Donkees
(31,091 posts)91-year-old Liubov Pahoniuk brought volunteers her dress, which she sewed during exile in Vorkuta, to create a camouflage net for Ukrainian soldiers. Volunteers saved this dress and will donate it to the museum.
Picked note: Let the camouflage net protect soldiers from enemies
MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦
@MFA_Ukraine