(23 Feb 2023)
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Port Reading, New Jersey - 9 February 2023
1. Various of volunteers loading donated used firefighting equipment into boxes to be shipped to Ukraine
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Andriy Boychuk, volunteer for Razom:
"Today's mission, we received a big donation from a retired fire department chief in Port Jervis, New York. So we received a lot of like fire, used fire equipment, and we are preparing to ship it to Ukraine. Also, we have a lot of supplies for first aid kits, individual first aid kits, as well as tactical backpacks."
3. Various of medical supplies to be donated in warehouse
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Andriy Boychuk, volunteer for Razom:
"Razom is (means) together for Ukraine."
5. Mid of man wearing Razom t-shirt
6. Tight of box with Razom logo
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Andriy Boychuk, volunteer for Razom:
"I mean, if not us, who else can be? Of course, government. But the government has much bigger issues than... much bigger issues, and we just trying to help our country. I was born in Ukraine. Many people here were born in Ukraine. So it's our duty."
8. Various of Boychuk speaking to volunteer in warehouse
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Andriy Boychuk, volunteer for Razom:
"I didn't have like...in my worst dream that war will last so long. And right now it's become, I mean, I'm embarrassed to say, but it's become a kind of like a norm."
10. Various video portraits of Boychuk
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Andriy Boychuk, volunteer for Razom:
"They are kind of refugees helping refugees. And even today, we have, I believe, at least one person that I know from top of my head. She is helping us today as well."
12. Various of Roshkovan
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Valeriya Roshkovan, Ukrainian refugee and volunteer:
"My name is Valeriya Roshkovan. I lived in Ukraine, Konotop City, and now I live in Brooklyn."
14. Tight of Roshkovan putting on work gloves
15. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Valeriya Roshkovan, Ukrainian refugee and volunteer:
"The first few months were very difficult to get used to things and also to come to terms with the thought that there is full scale invasion going on in your country."
16. Various of Roshkovan packing boxes with volunteers
17. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Valeriya Roshkovan, Ukrainian refugee and volunteer:
"The first reason was the fear for the safety of my daughter, because the town was surrounded, all the artillery was pointed at the town and most of the exits were already in the hands of Russia. So and then there were lots of bombing happening, so they had to hide."
18. Wide of Roshkovan packing boxes with volunteers
19. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Valeriya Roshkovan, Ukrainian refugee and volunteer:
"The need is great and that's why I'm here now, volunteering and helping. And if it wasn't for the international help, I don't think that we would be able to kind of keep up and sustain and go on."
20. Mid of Roshkovan and Malymoneko speaking in warehouse
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Malymonenko, volunteer for Razom:
"Everybody has a valuable mission, regardless of the place they've been placed. And we've been more lucky, I would say, to be on a safe place, so we should be giving as much as we can to the people who have been much less lucky to be in the war zone and be bombarded by all of this."
22. Various of Malymoneko volunteering in warehouse
STORYLINE:
In New York, far from her home in northern Ukraine, Valeriya Roshkovan tries to do what she can to end Russia's invasion of her country.
“If not us, who else?” he said, when asked why a nonprofit was sending supplies to the frontlines.
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