A couple from Texas and their friend in California saw the war in Ukraine unfold and they couldn’t sit back and watch.
A mother from Ukraine feeds her children at a refugee center in Poland. Courtesy: Team Ukraine Love
“You donate your money to us now, you trust us, you see us using that money. We find out exactly what people need, we’ll buy it and get it into their hands in a 48-hour window. We were amazed with how much people resonated with that,” Rantz-McDonald said.Pictures and videos flood their social media pages daily, prompting thousands of donations that now total around $600,000.“They have about 10 million followers total. When they post something like, ‘Hey we have a need for bedsheets.
“This amazing woman who was leading the volunteer group, her first request was for these candy lollipops for the kids. We bought a whole bucket, as many as we could. We went to all these stores and the kids were just ecstatic,” Vaughn said. “They don’t have to feel like refugees taking handouts. They can go in and buy what they want,” Forsythe said.The future of Team Ukraine Love remains up in the air, depending entirely on how long the war continues and how desperate the refugee crisis goes.
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