SPRUCE PINE – School-based telehealth programs in McDowell and Avery counties are getting a boost from a $100,000 grant from The Baxter International Foundation to Children’s Health Fund (CHF). The
project, karen redlener. thanks so much for being here. you re on the ground in lviv. this is your third trip to ukraine since the war began. give us a sense of how things have changed and what conditions are like there right now. well, chris, it s an incredible situation here as we can all imagine. i was first here last summer, and it felt relatively safe here in lviv. it s on the western edge of the country, very near poland, but then our second trip was in october, and it was the first week that the attacks on the infrastructure were happening all around the country and even here on the western coast, and it was a very big change in the situation in the entire country. that was when there was no safe place. we spent time in the shelter, a number days that week because of
7.5 million, and that s a relatively smaller percentage of children in this country. so every child is valuable, and every child needs to have that continuity of educational access, whether it s online or in person, as well as services that can help address the trauma that they have experienced during this time. well, karen redlener, thank you so much for the work that you and the folks who work with you do. i want to just put up on the screen, if people want to get more information, they can go to ukrainecap.org. that s the ukraine children s action project. karen redlener, thank you so much for being with us. and that just highlights how around the world humanitarian responders right now are spread thin. let s take what we re seeing. again, this is live in turkey, search and rescue workers on the ground hoping for a miracle underneath that rubble. the critical 72-hour window to find buried survivors has elapsed but they re not giving