Chicagoans are offering volunteer, medical support to Ukraine

Reset hears from Chicagoans offering medical supplies and volunteer support to Ukrainians.

By Andrea Guthmann, Claire Hyman
supplies for Ukraine
Volunteers from across Chicago gathered at Meest-Karpaty shipping to organize and prepare thousands of donated items for soldier in Ukraine. Several large semi trucks were filled to capacity with the donated items including, clothing, boots, medical supplies, binoculars and other useful items on March 2, 2022. Manuel Martinez / WBEZ
supplies for Ukraine
Volunteers from across Chicago gathered at Meest-Karpaty shipping to organize and prepare thousands of donated items for soldier in Ukraine. Several large semi trucks were filled to capacity with the donated items including, clothing, boots, medical supplies, binoculars and other useful items on March 2, 2022. Manuel Martinez / WBEZ

Chicagoans are offering volunteer, medical support to Ukraine

Reset hears from Chicagoans offering medical supplies and volunteer support to Ukrainians.

By Andrea Guthmann, Claire Hyman
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Two million people have fled Ukraine, half of them children, since the start of the Russian invasion. It’s a crisis of historic proportions that the United Nations has called the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

Reset hears from Chicagoans offering medical supplies and volunteer support to Ukrainians.

GUESTS: Iuliia Skuibida, Ukranian from Chicago who recently returned from helping refugees in Poland

Vitaliy Poylin, colon and rectal surgeon at Northwestern Medicine