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In our continuing effort to look at the personal stories of hope coming out of the war in Ukraine, the Bucks are proud to interview Mary Meaney and Annie Tregouet, two residents of St.-Omer, France who are among the many townspeople of this beautiful village who have opened their hearts and homes to over 500 Ukrainian refugees.

Mary has spearheaded this all-volunteer effort simply because she wanted to do more than watch the tragedy of Ukraine on TV. She wanted to make a real difference and she did. Her whole story is very powerful and is more than we can cover in 30 minutes.

\\xa0Annie has been instrumental in having the adult refugees learn French through intensive courses. Annie and her husband Paul are also instrumental in getting much-needed medical supplies to to Ukrainian combatants.

This is the website for Mary's charity in St-Omer.\\xa0 It's not in English but we wanted you to see it.\\xa0 MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR YOU, their US affiliate is Remember Us, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, to which you can donate directly to help Ukrainian refugees.\\xa0 That's rememberus.org.

To learn more about how Mary worked with Imperial College London to develop a blueprint for other communities to use in setting up similar programs, use this link.

To donate much-needed medical supplies to the front lines in Ukraine, go to this Amazon-France website, where you will find a prioritized wishlist. Yes, it's in French but you click in all the same places to complete your order. In the shipping section, be sure to click on the Tomasz address. Otherwise it will end up at your doorstep.

Finally, if you want to read more about this amazing and ongoing success story in Mary's own words, send a note to buckstwoold@gmail.com and we'll send you a presentation she made to Imperial College London. Sorry, we don't yet have the ability to hang it on our website.

Quite a story, don't you think?\\xa0 Tell us what you think.\\xa0 And please forward this podcast to anyone you know who wants to support and learn more about the brave Ukrainian refugees and how a few people were able to make such a difference in their lives because they cared and because they stood up and did something about it.

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