Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
A Peoria Connection Helping Ukraine
Clip: Season 7 Episode 8 | 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Mark Rein shares how an unexpected connection led to helping people in Ukraine.
A connection through mutual friends brought Peorian Mark Rein and Ukrainian humanitarian Sasha Volyanyk together. Rein recalls their first conversation and how they quickly began identifying the people, resources and funding they could bring to help meet needs in Ukraine.
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Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
A Peoria Connection Helping Ukraine
Clip: Season 7 Episode 8 | 44sVideo has Closed Captions
A connection through mutual friends brought Peorian Mark Rein and Ukrainian humanitarian Sasha Volyanyk together. Rein recalls their first conversation and how they quickly began identifying the people, resources and funding they could bring to help meet needs in Ukraine.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWhat got you involved in that and to be friendly here with Sasha?
- It was just kind of a weird serendipitous friend of a friend of a friend type of connection.
And it was kind of odd having an international phone call with Sasha, with somebody I didn't know before, but we connected very, very quickly.
- Mm-hmm.
- And he said, "Of course we need help."
And so, we were looking at what could we bring, who could we bring, what finances did we need, and how could we make an impact based upon the challenges that they were having?
And like I said, it came together very quickly.
And again, like I said, a lot of synergy there to be able to assist them as best we could.
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