Saskatoon man volunteers in Ukraine to help those in need
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Drozd said he has three main avenues for funding, email transfers, Paypal, and a Gofundme page. He noted he wouldn't be able to help like he has without the kindness of strangers.
A Saskatoon resident has been overseas in Ukraine, helping where he can.
Brett Drozd said he’s currently in Dnipro, and has been volunteering since May doing a range of work, even endangering his own life.
“When I initially arrived I was working at the border, there was still a lot more of a cacophony going on there. I was helping out with logistics and aid supply that was coming into the country at the time,” Drozd said.
He added that soon dropped off, and he moved to Kyiv, where he linked up with other international volunteers to help where he could.
“We were helping with animal shelters, which were overflowing at the time because of the mass exodus from the suburbs around Kyiv.”
“So we raised some money for a shelter there that was sheltering I think 1,500 dogs, and several hundred cats,” Drozd said.
He added they raised money to get some facility upgrades for the building, piping hot water to different parts of the building, and rewiring the electrical, as well as making dog houses.
Drozd said some of the more grim work he’s been able to do is fundraise to supply several hundred body bags to a battlefield coroner.
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