It was a Saturday morning in Kyiv in March 2023. Just days earlier, the Russian invasion had reached its grim one-year mark. Dillon Carroll 鈥20 and Mark Kreynovich 鈥20, BS 鈥19, were observing a different, though directly related milestone: the one-year anniversary of their arrival in Eastern Europe, in an impromptu effort to impacted by the conflict.
鈥淭here鈥檚 not one family that has been untouched by the war,鈥 observes Kreynovich鈥攕tressing that in addition to the physical violence and infrastructure damage, people鈥檚 day-to-day lives have been enormously affected. 鈥淚f you are not yourself actively involved in it or living in a population center that is directly impacted, then your cousin is fighting, or your uncle is fighting.鈥
Carroll, who majored in history in the 麻豆视频 & 麻豆视频, and Kreynovich, an ILR grad, are best friends and former Cornell roommates; they were even born on the same day in February 1998. The aid organization they founded, originally known as Mission to Ukraine, is now called (M2U for short), and has raised more than $600,000 for relief-work projects. Much of their past year has been spent in hands-on relief work鈥攑rocuring, sorting, packing, and delivering medicine, food rations, and other crucial supplies across the country.
.
More News from A&S
Government
Social sciences
