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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: December 1-Support Ukrainians [1]

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Date: 2022-12-01

I just got off the phone with an old friend, Rick Lathrop, about volunteering with his nonprofit Global Service Corps in their program to help Ukrainian refugees. He and his wife Maxine started working with Ukrainians offering community and support in Drop in Zoom cafes and their project has since expanded.

They are currently seeking funds to pay for Ukrainian students to study English through a partnership with Paper AIrplanes. (Rick has about a month to raise money for the $200 tuition for each Ukrainian to enroll in the Paper Airplanes course, so any amount you can chip in would help immensely.)

Here’s the story:

As was probably true for many of you, my wife Maxine and I were appalled by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Watching wives and children waving goodbye through train windows to leave behind husbands and fathers in Ukraine deeply hurt our hearts. We decided we must do something to support traumatized externally and internally displaced Ukrainian refugees. Along with new volunteer Ukrainian and American friends and supporters, we decided to virtually connect and support these traumatized refugees by providing what we were told they wanted: assistance with English training to improve job opportunities. The Ukraine Refugee Support Service-Learning Program https://cutt.ly/71nwrwg was launched in April of this year. This now includes mutually heartwarming virtual weekly Drop-in Café speaking clubs and one-on-one English tutoring classes. We welcome you to join us in this work in one of these ways: Sponsor a Ukrainian refugee English student with a partial or full $200 scholarship to the English tutoring classes at https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-traumatized-ukrainian-refugees

Join the virtual Drop-in Café as a participant or cofacilitator to meet and support Ukrainian refugees. See VOLUNTEER Participation Opportunities at https://cutt.ly/71nwrwg for more information.

Become a virtual one-on-one English tutor with a Ukrainian student. Step-by-step curriculum and teaching guide provided, and no formal English teaching experience required. . See VOLUNTEER Participation Opportunities at https://cutt.ly/71nwrwg for more information. (An application is due soon with some flexibility.)

Next Thursday at 9 am Pacific, I’ll be participating in my first Drop-in Cafe. I’m really looking forward to it.

Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that many who post in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table and hope to make some new friends as well.

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