Seven Ukrainian refugees delivered water bottles and volunteered with aid workers in tornado-hit Mississippi, not long after resettling in Minneapolis.
Dmytro Fedirko, a 34-year-old former van driver, puzzled through American road signs on his first road trip in the country. With him were couple Denys Pavliuk and Viktoriia Hasiuk, 19 and 18, who had arrived in the United States 10 days before. Iryna Hrebenyk, a 51-year-old hairdresser turned forklift operator for Home Depot, tried to stay awake — she joined the group after a night shift, with only a few hours of sleep in between.
Pavliuk arrived in Minneapolis with Hasiuk earlier in March, the latest additions to a tightknit community of refugees who fled the Russian invasion. Pavliuk’s group had all been helped by the same nonprofit organization, the American Service. “I feel like I have a big family,” said the American Service’s Minnesota director, Sofiia Rudenko, who arrived in the United States from Ukraine in late December. “I realized that last week, I didn’t even cook because my neighbors kept feeding me every day.”
“They decided to go immediately and started packing their clothes,” Rudenko said. “I guess they didn’t unpack it, even.” The group also left a small gift with the Mississippi workers they volunteered with: small yellow-and-blue hearts sewn onto pieces of Ukrainian army uniforms.
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