James Cook University has just published a piece about our upcoming deployment to Ukraine, and I wanted to share it with you — because sometimes it helps to hear our story through someone else’s eyes.
The article captures something I’m often too close to articulate cleanly: that this work is about more than emergency response. It’s about showing up, again and again, for people whose healthcare system has been systematically destroyed by war.
What JCU’s piece doesn’t tell you is what it costs — not financially, but humanly — to walk into a country where hospitals are targets and doctors are working under conditions most of us cannot imagine. I’ve seen it. That’s why I keep going back. And that’s why the equipment we’re fundraising for right now matters so much. Portable ultrasounds, wound care supplies, diagnostic tools — these aren’t abstractions. They are the difference between a clinician guessing and a clinician knowing.
If you haven’t yet supported our Empowering Health Heroes in Ukraine campaign on Chuffed, this is a good moment. Or you can support us directly HERE. Read the JCU article below, then come back and consider how you can support.
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