When Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, Svitlana Miller's friends and neighbors turned to her to ask which charities they should donate to in order to send aid to her home country.
"When my husband and I have donated to different organizations over the years, we just kind of write a check and we hope that it went to do something good," she said. "But we've never had someone say, 'We'd like to show you what your money has done.'", an organization that does just that. What started as a small community effort in Idaho to do what they could for Ukraine has become one of the most recognized nonprofits in the war-torn nation.
Individuals in Utah described what it was like to see the effects of their donations at A Taste of Ukraine, a benefit dinner hosted by the organization Tuesday night in Salt Lake City. After taking a long pause to collect himself, Keele said, "We're here tonight to make it possible for more families like the Danilovas to get the help that they need."
Clark Ivory, head of the Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation, also spoke on the effort Utah has dedicated to aiding Ukraine. The couple was on vacation abroad when the bombing started, but their four children, ages 8 to 14, were still in Ukraine. The children were brought to the Ukraine-Poland border, where their parents met them and brought them to Utah.
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