% CENTURY.
% FOR "HERE & NOW", I'M NATHAN
% DENZEN.
% >> Frederica: "HERE & NOW" %
THOUGH UKRAINE IS NO LONGER
% FRONT OF MIND THE WAR FROM
% RUSSIA'S INVASION NEARLY ONE
% YEAR AGO CONTINUES TO RAVAGE THE
% COUNTRY'S PEOPLE.
% SOME WISCONSIN ITS REFUSE TO LET
% UP IN THEIR EFFORTS TO SEND AID
% OVERSEAS INCLUDING OUR NEXT
% GUEST WHO SENT MORE THAN $25
% MILLION WORTH OF GOODS TO THE
% UKRAINIAN PEOPLE.
% THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
% >> THANK YOU.
% >> Frederica: DO YOU FIND THE
% WAR IS NO LONGER TOP OF MIND FOR
% AMERICANS.%>> THE DEATH IS NO
LONGER A NEWS
% TO SO MANY PEOPLE.
% WE'RE USED TO HEARING ABOUT
% DYING AND CHILDREN ARE DYING
% BORN AND UNBORN AND IT'S NOT IN
% THE NEWS ANYMORE.
% HOWEVER, I SEE THERE'S BIG AW
% AWAKENING IN THE PEOPLE AND
% WHAT'S HAPPENING IS TOUCHING THE
% QUESTION WHICH WORLD DO WE WANT
% TO SEE WHERE DO WE GO WITH ALL
% THAT IS IN FRONT OF US?
% WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE.
% IN THE BEGINNING IT WAS SHOCK
% AND HUMANITARIAN EFFORT GIVEN TO
% UKRAINE JUST FROM LOCAL
% ORGANIZATIONS AND BIGGER
% ORGANIZATIONS AND GENERALLY
% UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAVE
% HELPED SO MUCH.
% IT'S TRUE AT THIS POINT A LITTLE
% BIT WE ARE SHIFTING TO THE --
% THERE'S A CONTRAST, RIGHT.
% PEOPLE WANT IT TO BE DONE AND
% FINISHED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND
% YET IT GOES ON AND RIGHT NOW WE
% ALL FEEL IN UKRAINE WE FEEL DEEP
% LET'S SAY FOCUS.
% WE'LL GO ON UNTIL THE WAR IS
% GOING TO BE OVER AND THERE'LL BE
% A VICTORY.
% >> Frederica: WHAT YOUR HEARING
% FROM PEOPLE IN UKRAINE ABOUT THE
% CONDITIONS NOW.
% >> CONDITIONS RIGHT NOW ARE
% QUITE SEVERE.
% IT'S WINTER AND OUR COUNTRY'S
% LIVING ON 30% ENERGY SUPPLY.
% SOME PARTS OF KYIV ARE
% STRUGGLING, OUR CAPITAL, RIGHT
% NOW ARE STRUGGLING WITH HEAT AND
% ELECTRICITY.%EVERY CITY HAS A
PARTICULAR
% SCHEDULE WHEN THEY CAN HAVE
% ELECTRICITY WHICH MEANS YOU'RE
% ONLY LIMITED TO A CERTAIN TIME
% TO PREPARE YOUR FOOD AND IMAGINE
% IF YOU HAVE ELDER PEOPLE OR
% CHILDREN THERE'S SMALL YOUNG
% BABIES, THIS IS VERY DIFFICULT.
% VERY DIFFICULT, VERY HARD RIGHT
% NOW.
% >> Frederica: YOUR ORGANIZATION
% SENDS MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF
% DONATED GOODS EVERYTHING FROM
% CLOTHES AND FOOD TO BLANKETS BUT
% IT SEEMS IMPORTANTLY MEDICAL
% SUPPLIES AND THESE ARE IN THE
% TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
% WORTH OF GOODS AS WE POINTED OUT
% YOUR SENDING.
% HOW ARE THESE MEDICAL SUPPLIES
% BEING USED?
% >> SO ONCE WE SHIP EVERYTHING TO
% UKRAINE AND WE WORK OUT OF THE
% WAREHOUSE IN THE TWIN CITIES.
% I HAVE A BIG GROUP OF
% VOLUNTEERS, UKRAINIAN PEOPLE WHO
% ARE IMMIGRANTS A LONG TIME AGO
% OR THOSE THAT CAME THROUGH THE
% PROGRAM FOR YOU AND THEY HAVE A
% VERY GREAT DESIRE TO PARTICIPATE
% IN ANY WAY TO GIVE THEM
% OPPORTUNITY.
% ONCE EVERYTHING IS STACK IN BIG
% PALLETS, WE SEND THOSE TO NEW
% JERSEY TO A GREAT COMPANY WE
% WORK WITH AND IT'S SHIPPED TO
% WARSAW AND TRANSFERRED TO THE
% CITY I'M FROM I'M A CITIZEN OF
% THE UNITED STATES BUT I WAS
% IMMIGRATED 21 YEARS AGO AND
% CHALICE OF MERCY EXISTED FOR 15
% YEARS OF MY AMERICAN LIFE.
% ONCE IT REACHES THE DESTINATION
% WE HAVE TEAMS FROM HOSPITAL AND
% MOBILE CLINICS THAT SAVE LIVES
% ON THE SPOT RIGHT THERE AND
% WOUNDED PEOPLE AND SOLDIERS ARE
% SO VAST TIMES JUST A SMALL
% CLINIC RECEIVES ABOUT 100
% WOUNDED SOLDIERS A DAY AND IT'S
% GOING TO BE A SEVERE SURGERY,
% SERIOUS MATTERS.
% WE COLLECT EVERYTHING REQUESTED
% AND WE GO TO THE FRONT LINES AND
% BRING THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES OR
% THEY GET IT FROM THE WAREHOUSE
% WE DISTRIBUTE FROM.
% >>
% >> Frederica: WHY DO YOU WORK SO
% HARD TO DO THIS?
% >> IT'S MY COUNTRY AND MY HEART
% IS SUFFERING WITH THE PEOPLE.
% IT'S HEARTBREAKING TO SEE WHAT
% UKRAINE IS GOING THROUGH.
% IT'S A HAPPY COUNTRY AND HAPPY
% PEOPLE.%PEOPLE THAT ARE HARD
WORKING
% WHICH JUST DESIRE TO HAVE OUR
% OWN -- TO CONTINUE OUR FUTURE
% WITHOUT HAVING THIS COMMUNISTIC
% SOCIALISTIC IDEOLOGIES AND IT'S
% SO MUCH IN MY HEART BECAUSE I
% GREW UP IN THE TIME WHEN THE
% SOVIET UNION FELL AND IT WAS
% STILL IN THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE.
% IT'S A GOOD THING.
% AND NOW THERE'S NO DOUBT ANY
% MORE BECAUSE UKRAINE AND LET ME
% PUT IT THIS WAY, UKRAINE ALWAYS
% HAS BEEN SUBJECT OF WAR AND VERY
% SOON WILL BE THE ANNIVERSARY AND
% PARTIAL INVASION HAPPENED NINE
% YEARS BUT BEFORE THAT WAS 100
% YEARS WHICH STARTED FROM THE MAN
% MADE FAMINE AND THE REVOLUTION
% AND THE 10 MILLION PEOPLE DIED
% BECAUSE OF STARVATION.
% WE WOULDN'T SUBMIT TO THE
% RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM AND SO MUCH
% WITHIN ME AND TOUCHES ME TO HAVE
% MY COUNTRY TO BREAKTHROUGH FROM
% THAT SILK THREAD WHICH WE HAVE
% BEEN TIED TO THE RED DRAGON'S
% TAIL.%>> Frederica: WE LEAVE
IT THERE.
% THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK,