A humanitarian aid journey to Ukraine

摘要

In retrospect, the most challenging part of the journey I took to Ukraine earlier this year to provide humanitarian relief was getting there and back. I was charged with procuring medicines for a dispensary in Vinogradev in he Transcarpathian Oblast (county) that provides free dispensing forthe poor of the area. Vinogradev is in the very west of Ukraine and the people there are more ethnic Hungarian than Ukrainian. This part of the country is close to the borders of Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia and over the years has been subjected to various countries' rule. It is possible for someone to be born, grow up, marry, and die in four differet countries.