Your Support Counts!
It was a pleasure and an honor to have a zoom call last week with Yuri Bova, the Mayor of Trostyanets, a Ukrainian city just 20 miles from the Russian border. He and I met when he came to Chattanooga to talk with Mayor Kelly and attend a reception for him coordinated by Sister Cities. We became friends and when he asked to chat and update me, I was thrilled.
Yuri explained how many Ukrainian children are orphans, they lost their parents when Russia invaded. They would deeply appreciate our support so that they wouldn’t feel alone. What might school children in Chattanooga do to develop connections and inspire hope for the coming year? We discussed logistics and our focus turned to the creation of short videos. These videos would be in English and uploaded to YouTube. The links could be sent to me and I’d share them with Mayor Bova’s staff. Then, they could be accessed by television stations in Trostyanets and be given translated subtitles. This would allow the videos to be shared across Trostyanets, and perhaps across all of the Ukraine.
SAMPLE VIDEO:
Please use the contact form to paste your YouTube video links to me.
Also, you can help Ukrainians through this new website: https://www.chattanooga-ukraine.org
Yuriy Bova is Mayor of Trostyanets, a Ukrainian city just 20 miles from the Russian border that endured occupation for a month. Badly damaged in fighting with Russian forces almost two years ago, Trostyanets is one of six settlements being rebuilt in a pilot program to develop the skills and experience needed for a far broader reconstruction drive.