A Utah restaurateur travels to Poland to deliver handmade cards to Ukrainian children. Salt Lake City restaurant owner Dirk Astle was inspired to help Ukrainian refugees when he saw members of his church going to the Poland-Ukraine border to provide aid. “I thought ‘I could do this,’” Astle says. “I have frequent-flyer miles. I have time in my schedule right now. I should go help." So he booked a flight to Poland.
Before leaving, he reached out to a friend with Utah’s Honorary Consulate of Ukraine to see if they needed him to transport anything to the region for them. His friend connected him with Utah’s first lady who was spearheading a campaign encouraging kids in Utah to write letters to Ukrainian children who had to leave their homes. Astle consolidated his personal items into a single carry-on and loaded up two suitcases with 50 pounds of the letters in each one.
Astle arrived in Krakow, Poland, on March 24th. With the suitcases in hand, Astle then traveled 167 miles to the east to deliver the letters to refugees at the Poland-Ukraine border. Astle met up with United Sikhs, an organization in charge of caring for children as they cross the border. He was able to hand deliver a few of the letters to appreciative Ukrainian kids. "The children either clutched them in their hands the whole time or they very carefully stored the picture in their plastic envelope where their crucial travel documents are kept," Astle recalls. "It’s amazing."
- The remainder of the letters were left with United Sikhs to be given to children as they cross the border into Poland.
Source: Fox News