Tag: jay
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Chocolate eggs at The Phoenix
[We had been to Roshen and bought chocolate eggs and bunnies for the children to celebrate spring] Jay: Awesome, they will be happy! Olena: They will be over the moon. So in Ukraine you will get one Kinder Surprise. Like, just one thing. You don’t get a kinder surprise plus MORE Kinder Suprises plus some…
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Jay from The Phoenix
Jay: Hi, my name is Jay Rivera. I’ve been volunteering in Poland and Ukraine since June 2022, and right now the project I’m working on is the Phoenix. So the Phoenix is a long term stay shelter, but primarily a reintegration centre. What we do is we look at focusing on providing families with safety,…
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Queen Elizabeth at The Phoenix
Vic: I have a very important question for you. Jay: Yes. Vic: Most important question of the day. Why have you got Queen Elizabeth up there? Jay: Ah, ha, ha, ha! Because she never died. So we have a volunteer named Kate, who- when we started Hope Shelter, Kate was one of our founding members,…
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Jay’s Easter Egg hunt
Jay: We were doing supply runs out to Mykolaiv, and Mykolaiv was under artillery bombardment. We had these Lindt eggs. So we would distribute some just to people, and then if there were like a whole gaggle of kids, we would basically tell them they have to cover their eyes for five minutes, and we’d…