In parts of Ukraine, electricity comes on for just two hours a day. In that window, families cook and do laundry, and children log on to school, where classes are now held entirely online.
It’s details like that one that drive the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island’s four-year effort to send aid into Ukraine, a campaign that has grown into one of the club’s most sustained humanitarian commitments.
“Many in the community may not realize how deeply involved the club has been since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022,” said Nena Peltin, co-chair of the club’s Ukrainian Subcommittee of the World Community Service Committee. “Over the past four years, our club has wired close to $115,000 to our Polish Rotary partners to buy humanitarian aid and sneak it into Ukraine.”
Read the story in the Bainbridge Review, written by our own Nancy Treder:
https://www.bainbridgereview.com/2026/10/06/bainbridge-rotarians-keep-aid-pipeline-flowing-to-ukraine/