Fifteen-year-old Artiom talks with World Vision U.S. President and CEO, Edgar Sandoval, Sr. at World Vision’s safe playing area at the Siret border. This area allows children and their families the option of warming up and a time to play after their long trips from Ukraine. Photo courtesy of World Vision.
Federal Way-based World Vision has been responding to the refugee crisis in Ukraine. CEO Edgar Sandoval has just returned after a trip to the Ukrainian borders with Romania and Moldova. More than three million people have fled Ukraine. World Vision has been taking water, food, hygiene kits and heaters to the “mother-and-child rest stations” at the border crossings. If you’d like to help, go to www.worldvision.org Sandoval spoke with Manda Factor on the Morning News about what he saw. To hear that conversation, click below.
